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What does drown mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word drown? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
  2. (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
  3. (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
  4. (transitive, figuratively) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
  5. (transitive, figuratively, usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
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He still has 60 acres of winter corn under water, a lot of which will drown out and have to be re-sown.
I mean, it's not like a guy who wanted to murder and drown his wife on record can be said to take it easy on ex-partners.
This Opera comes with a heavy bassline, a raucous bellow that would drown the loudest baritone.
Prevented from surfacing to breathe, the sea mammals drown while their skin is lacerated by the spines of writhing fish.
I ordered a bottle of the house Frascati to drown our sorrows and a garlic bread pizza to share.
In his most remarkable feat, he constructs a low-lying town in a dry lakebed only to drown it for a spectacular inundation.

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