drown

present (v1)

drown

past (v2)

drowned

past participle (v3)

drowned

present participle

drowning

3rd person singular

drowns

1. 1.To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

   • When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.
   • Old woes, not infant sorrows, bear them mild / Continuance tames the one; the other wild, / Like an unpractised swimmer plunging still, / With too much labour drowns for want of skill.

2. 2.To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.

   • The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping.

3. 3.To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.

   • We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom.
   • Penny Guy: Bloody hell, Rog, whadda you want? / Roger O'Neill: To drown in your arms and hide in yer eyes, darlin'.

4. 4.To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.

   • My private Voice is drown’d amid the Senate’s.
   • He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream.
   • Though most men being in sensuall pleasures drownd, / It seemes their Soules but in the Senses are.

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