DROWN,
1. Literally, to overwhelm in water an appropriately, to extinguish life by immersion in water or other fluid applied to animals also, to suspend animation by submersion.
2. To overwhelm in water as, to drown weeds.
3. To overflow to deluge to inundate as, to drown land.
4. To immerse to plunge and lose to overwhelm as, to drown ones self in sensual pleasure.
5. To overwhelm to overpower.
My private voice is drowned amid the senate.
DROWN, To be suffocated in water or other fluid to perish in water.
Methought what pain it was to drown.
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