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Meaning of drown

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  drown
      v 1: cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in
           work"; "The noise drowned out her speech" [syn: {submerge},
           {drown}, {overwhelm}]
      2: get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in
         alcohol"
      3: die from being submerged in water, getting water into the
         lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"
      4: kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens"
      5: be covered with or submerged in a liquid; "the meat was
         swimming in a fatty gravy" [syn: {swim}, {drown}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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