drown

drown  (droun)

v. drowned, drown·ing, drowns

v.tr.

1. To kill by submerging and suffocating in water or another liquid.

2. To drench thoroughly or cover with or as if with a liquid.

3. To deaden one's awareness of; blot out: people who drowned their troubles in drink.

4. To muffle or mask (a sound) by a louder sound: screams that were drowned out by the passing train.

v.intr.

To die by suffocating in water or another liquid.

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[Middle English drounen, probably of Scandinavian origin; see dhreg- in Indo-European roots.]

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drown [draʊn]

vb

1. to die or kill by immersion in liquid

2. (tr) to destroy or get rid of as if by submerging he drowned his sorrows in drink

3. (tr) to drench thoroughly; inundate; flood

4. (tr; sometimes foll by out) to render (a sound) inaudible by making a loud noise

[probably from Old English druncnian; related to Old Norse drukna to be drowned]

drowner  n

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	drown - cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech" submerge, overwhelm spread over, cover - form a cover over; "The grass covered the grave" drown out - make imperceptible; "The noise from the ice machine drowned out the music"
	2.	drown - get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol" do away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
	3.	drown - die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake" croak, decease, die, drop dead, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, snuff it, pop off, expire, conk, exit, choke, go, pass - pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
	4.	drown - kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens" kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"
	5.	drown - be covered with or submerged in a liquid; "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy" swim be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"

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drown

verb

1. go down, go under, go to a watery grave, go to Davy Jones's locker, die under water He drowned during a storm.

2. drench, flood, soak, steep, swamp, saturate, engulf, submerge, immerse, inundate, deluge the country would be drowned in blood

3. overwhelm, overcome, wipe out, overpower, obliterate, swallow up, be louder than His words were soon drowned by amplified police sirens.

Quotations
"I was much farther out than you thought"
"And not waving but drowning" [Stevie Smith Not Waving But Drowning]

Translations

drown [draʊn]

A. VT

1. [+ people, animals] → ahogar; [+ land] → inundar
to drown o.s → ahogarse
a boy was drowned here yesterday → un chico se ahogó ayer aquí
like a drowned rat → calado hasta los huesos

2. (also drown out) [+ sound] → ahogar
his cries were drowned by the noise of the waves → sus gritos se perdieron en el estruendo de las olas
see also sorrow A

B. VI → ahogarse, perecer ahogado
a boy drowned here yesterday → un chico se ahogó or pereció ahogado ayer aquí

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drown [ˈdraʊn]

vt

(= kill) → noyer
to be drowned [+ person, animal] → se noyer
to drown one's sorrows (= drink a lot) → noyer son chagrin

(also drown out) [+ sound] → couvrir

vi (= die) → se noyer
A boy drowned here yesterday → Un garçon s'est noyé ici hier.

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drown

vi → ertrinken

vt

person, animal → ertränken; to be drowned → ertrinken; he looks like a drowned rat (inf) → er sieht wie eine gebadete Maus aus (inf); to drown one’s sorrows (in drink) → seine Sorgen (im Alkohol) ertränken; to drown one’s whisky → seinen Whisky verwässern

(= submerge, flood) land → überschwemmen, überfluten

(= render inaudible: also drown out) noise, voice → übertönen; speaker → niederschreien

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drown [draʊn]

1. vt (people, animals) → affogare, annegare; (land) → allagare (also drown out) (sound) → coprire
you look like a drowned rat (fam) → sei tutto fradicio!

2. vi (also to be drowned) → annegare, affogare

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drown

v drown [draun]

1 to (cause to) sink in water and so suffocate and die He drowned in the river; He tried to drown the cat. verdrink يَغْرَقُ давя (се) utopit (se) drukne ertrinken, ertränken πνίγω, πνίγομαι ahogar uputama, uppuma غرق شدن hukkua (se) noyer לְהַטבִּיע डूब कर मरना, डूबाकर मारना utopiti se vízbe fullad v. fojt tenggelam drukkna; drekkja affogare, annegare おぼれさせる 익사하다 (nu)skęsti, (nu)skandinti []slīkt; noslīcināt mati lemas verdrinken drukne (u)topić (się) afogar a (se) îneca тонуть; топить utopiť (sa) utopiti (se) udaviti drunkna, dränka จมน้ำ boğ(ul)mak 溺死 тонути; потопати پانی میں ڈوب کر یا ڈبا کر مار ڈالنا chết đuối 溺死

2 to cause (a sound) not to be heard by making a louder sound His voice was drowned by the roar of the traffic. smoor يَكْتُمُ الصَّوْت заглушавам překrýt overdøve übertönen σκεπάζω, καλύπτω (για ήχο) apagar, ahogar, cubrir summutama تحت تاثیر چیزی قرار دادن hukkua jnk alle couvrir לְהַבלִיע ज्यादा जोरदार आवाज कर किसी आवाज को दबा देना zaglušen elfojt (haragot) menenggelamkan yfirgnæfa coprire かき消す 큰 소리를 질러 작은 소리를 삼켜버리다 nustelbti, užgožti apslāpēt (skaņu) menenggelamkan overstemmen drukne, bli overdøvet zagłuszać abafar a acoperi заглушать prehlušiť preglasiti zaglušiti dränka, överrösta กลบ boğmak, bastırmak (聲音被)淹沒 потонути; заглушувати کسی آواز کو اس سے تیز آواز میں غرق کرنا át （声音被）淹没

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drown → يَغْرَق utopit (se) drukne ertrinken πνίγω ahogar hukkua se noyer utopiti se affogare 溺死する 익사하다 verdrinken drukne utopić się afogar тонуть drukna จมน้ำ suda boğulmak chết đuối 溺水