Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Drown"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Drown
(Ex. 15:4; Amos 8:8; Heb. 11:29). Drowning was a mode of capital
punishment in use among the Syrians, and was known to the Jews
in the time of our Lord. To this he alludes in Matt. 18:6.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Drown \Drown\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drowned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Drowning}.] [OE. drunen, drounen, earlier drunknen,
druncnien, AS. druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk,
fr. druncen drunken. See {Drunken}, {Drink}.]
To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
Methought, what pain it was to drown. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Drown \Drown\, v. t.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
drown
v 1: cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in
work"; "The noise drowned out her speech" [syn: {submerge},
{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"
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