DROWN
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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.
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Methought, what pain it was to drown.
Shak.
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Drown, v. t. 1. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. “They drown the land.” Dryden.
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2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
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3. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.
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Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned.
Sir J. Davies.
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My private voice is drowned amid the senate.
Addison.
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To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.] Holland.
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