DROWN, v.t. 1. Literally, to overwhelm in water; an appropriately, to extinguish life by immersion in water or other fluid; applied to animals; also, to suspend animation by submersion.2. To overwhelm in water; as, to drown weeds.3. To overflow; to deluge; to inundate; as, to drown land.4. To immerse; to plunge and lose; to overwhelm; as, to drown ones self in sensual pleasure.5. To overwhelm; to overpower.My private voice is drowned amid the senate.DROWN, v.i. To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought what pain it was to drown.
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