drown
drown is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absence
- add
- affuse
- affusion
- and
- aphonia
- aphonous
- aphony
- aqua
- aquatic
- aqueous
- are
- balneal
- balneation
- bated
- bath
- bathe
- breath
- breathless
- broken
- childish
- cracked
- cut
- dabble
- deaf
- deluge
- diluent
- dilute
- diluted
- dilution
- dip
- douche
- douse
- drench
- dry
- duck
- dumb
- dumbness
- dumfounder
- dummy
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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