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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

Verb

1. to die or kill by immersion in liquid

2. to drench thoroughly

3. to make (a sound) impossible to hear by making a loud noise [probably from Old English druncnian]

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

verb 2. drench, flood, soak, steep, swamp, saturate, engulf, submerge, immerse, inundate, deluge

verb 3. (often with out) overwhelm, overcome, wipe out, overpower, obliterate, swallow up

Translations

drown [draun] vt (also: drown out) [+ sound]; ahogar

vi → ahogarse

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drown [draun] vt → noyer;

(also: drown out) [+ sound]; couvrir, étouffer

vi → se noyer

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drown [draun] vt → ertränken (fig) (also: drown out) → übertönen

vi → ertrinken

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drown [draun] vt → affogare;

(also: drown out) [+ sound]; coprire

vi → affogare