Definitions for drown

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drown drown

Spelling: [droun]

IPA: /draʊn/

Drown is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in drown (dnorw).

Definitions for drown

Verb phrases

1. drown in, to be overwhelmed by: to be covered with or enveloped in:

verb (used with object)

1. to kill by submerging under water or other liquid.
2. to destroy or get rid of by, or as if by, immersion:
3. to flood or inundate.
4. to overwhelm so as to render inaudible, as by a louder sound (often followed by out).
5. to add too much water or liquid to (a drink, food, or the like).
6. to slake (lime) by covering with water and letting stand.

verb (used without object)

1. to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.

Origin of drown

1250-1300; Middle English drounnen, Old English druncnian, perhaps by loss of c between nasals and shift of length from nn to ou

Examples for drown

Peter might not be dead; what should he say to Margaret if he left him there to drown?

But are you voluble enough to drown all sense in a torrent of words?

The ice breaks, the Reds drown, the Whites rally to take the Island.

If prioritizing guns over dead kids makes you angry, stand up and drown his words out with action.

It seems like, since we live in the sound bite era, grabby headlines like “EBOLA” and “ISIS” tend to drown out those numbers.

Stryker had befriended him indeed, had he permitted him to drown.

That was why she had made such a noise about it, in order to drown these words.

Were we to drown the world with them, could the world blame us?

Goldman, wisely, does not raise a raft of questions that drown a writer in the answering.

Watching her drown her sorrows in hooch and then get beat up by Crazy Eyes in the showers was ghastly…but great television.