| drown | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. drown, overwhelm, submerge | cover completely or make imperceptible.; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech" |
| ~ spread over, cover | form a cover over.; "The grass covered the grave" |
| v. (change) | 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" |
| v. (change) | 3. drown | die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating.; "The child drowned in the lake" |
| ~ buy the farm, cash in one's chips, croak, decease, die, drop dead, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, snuff it, expire, pop off, 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" |
| v. (change) | 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" |
| v. (stative) | 5. drown, swim | be covered with or submerged in a liquid.; "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy" |
| ~ 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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