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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Drown \Drown\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drowned}; p. pr & vb n. {Drowning}.] [OE. drunen, drounen earlier drunknen, druncnien AS druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr druncen drunken. See {Drunken}, {Drink}.] To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Drown \Drown\, v. t. 1. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. ``They drown the land.'' --Dryden. 2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid. 3. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound. Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned. --Sir J. Davies. My private voice is drowned amid the senate. --Addison. {To drown up}, to swallow up [Obs.] --Holland. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: drown v 1: cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech" [syn: {submerge}, {overwhelm}] 2: get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol" 3: die by drowning in water; "The child drowned in the lake" 4: kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens" From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Drown (Ex. 15:4; Amos 8:8; Heb. 11:29). Drowning was a mode of capital punishment in use among the Syrians, and was known to the Jews in the time of our Lord. To this he alludes in Matt. 18:6.
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