Drown

Verb

 * 1)  To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation.
 * 2)  To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
 * 3)  To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
 * 4)  To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; &mdash; said especially of sound; usually in the form "to drown out"
 * 5)  To lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass
 * ''The CIA gathers so much information that the actual answers it should seek are often drowned in the incessant flood of reports, recordings, satellite images etc.

Synonyms for Drown

 * (overwhelm) flood
 * inundate, swamp, immerse, engulf, submerge, overwhelm, perish, plunge, deluge, suffocate, muffle, overpower, overflow, sink.

Antonyms for Drown
rescue, save, preserve, extricate, deliver, recover, float, raise.

Derived terms

 * drowned
 * drowner
 * drowning
 * drown one's sorrows
 * drown out

Thesaurus
OD, asphyxiate, baptize, be clobbered, be felled, be killed, be poleaxed, be staggered, be stricken, bottle up, burke, bury, censor, choke, choke off, clamp down on, come to grief, cork, cork up, crack down on, crush, damp down, deluge, dip, douse, drench, duck, dunk, engulf, extinguish, famish, float, flood, flow on, founder, gag, garrote, have a mishap, hold down, immerge, immerse, inundate, jump on, keep down, keep under, kill, knock over, merge, muzzle, overcome, overflow, overpower, overwhelm, plunge in water, pour on, pour water on, prostrate, put down, quash, quell, quench, rain, repress, run aground, shut down on, silence, sink, sit down on, sit on, sluice, smash, smother, soak, sop, souse, squash, squelch, stanch, starve, stifle, stop the breath, strangle, stultify, subdue, submerge, submerse, suffer a misfortune, suffocate, suppress, swamp, throttle, wet, whelm

Etymology
Origin uncertain.
 * The OED suggests an unattested Old English form *undefined: . Harper 2001 points to Old English druncnian:, "probably influenced" by drukkna: (cf. Danish drukne:) . Funk & Wagnall's has  drounen, drūnen, 'of uncertain origin'. It has been theorised (see e.g. ODS) that it may represent a direct loan of Old Norse drukkna:, but this is described  by the OED as being "on phonetic and other grounds [...] highly improbable".

Translations

 * Arabic: غرق
 * Bulgarian: давя се, удавям се
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 溺死, 淹死
 * Czech: se
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: droni
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: πνίγομαι
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 水死
 * Korean: 물에 뼈져 죽다
 * Latgalian:
 * Latvian: slīkt
 * Lithuanian: skęsti, grimzti
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, утонуть , потонуть
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ahogarse
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: давя
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 淹死
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: πνίγω


 * Italian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, утопить
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: потапям, заливам
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,


 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:, sommergere
 * Russian: затоплять, затопить
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: заглушавам
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, (sound)


 * Italian:
 * Russian: заглушать, заглушить
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: dränka


 * : gharq غرق
 * : yānmò (淹沒 traditional, 淹没 simplified)
 * : noyer, submerger


 * : 浸る (hitaru) / 浸す  (hitasu)
 * Sorani: خنکان
 * : a se ineca
 * : boğulmak
 * : boğulmak

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