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

1. intransitive verb. To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
2. transitive verb. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
3. transitive verb. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
4. transitive verb. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.
5. verb. die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating

   "The child drowned in the lake"

6. verb. get rid of as if by submerging

   "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"

7. verb. kill by submerging in water

   "He drowned the kittens"

8. verb. cover completely or make imperceptible

   "I was drowned in work"

   "The noise drowned out her speech"

   Synonyms: overwhelm, submerge

9. verb. be covered with or submerged in a liquid

   "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"

   Synonyms: swim

Synonyms

overwhelm, submerge, swim

Common word forms

drowns, drowned, drowner, drowning

Words from these letters

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