Dictionary Entry
drown
drown is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
- 2transitive verb
To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
- 3transitive verb
To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
- 4transitive verb
To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.
- 5verb
die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
"The child drowned in the lake"
- 6verb
get rid of as if by submerging
"She drowned her trouble in alcohol"
- 7verb
kill by submerging in water
"He drowned the kittens"
- 8verb
cover completely or make imperceptible
"I was drowned in work"
"The noise drowned out her speech"
- 9verb
be covered with or submerged in a liquid
"the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"
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