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verb

Drown v. t.

To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. "They drown the land."

To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.

To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; said especially of sound. "Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned." "My private voice is drowned amid the senate."

To drown up, to swallow up. (Obs.)

Drown v. i. (past & past part. drowned; pres. part. drowning) To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. "Methought, what pain it was to drown."

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"Drown" Quotes from Famous Books

... rim painted round with bands of lurid red and blue, and about its grinding foot the tulip bloom of emitted flame. Then the fierce-faced Oro at his post, his hand upon the rod, waiting, remorseless, to drown half of this great world, with the lovely Yva standing calm-eyed like a saint in hell and watching me above the edge of the shield which such a saint might bear to turn aside the fiery darts of the wicked. And lastly we three ...

— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard

... They were two enormous hogsheads, ten feet high and six broad. It would have been much easier for him to drown himself in them than to ...

— Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 - An Illustrated Magazine • Various

... back to my room, ordered the waiter not to disturb me until the return of the horses which had drawn Henriette's carriage, and I lay down on my bed in the hope that sleep would for a time silence a grief which tears could not drown. ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... if the carpenters were not hammering, and the orchestra screaming, and the audience buzzing; but that little laugh of his good friend, Judge Bemis, was the sweetest sound John Barclay had heard in many a day. It seemed curious that he should so associate it, but that little laugh seemed to drown the sound of a clicking key in a lock—a large iron lock, that had been rattling in his mind since noon. For even in the minds of the rich and the great, even in the minds of men who fancy they are divinely ...

— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White

... see how they gasp!—run and fetch some water, or they will die. Men drown in water, but fish cannot live out of it. It is the nature of cats to catch mice and birds—so that we should keep our little ...

— The Royal Picture Alphabet • Luke Limner

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