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Webster 1913 Edition
Drown
Drown
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Drowned
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drowning
.] [OE.
drunen
, drounen
, earlier drunknen
, druncnien
, AS. druncnian
to be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen
drunken. See Drunken
, Drink
.] To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
Methought, what pain it was to
drown
. Shakespeare
Drown
,Verb.
T.
1.
To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
“They drown the land.” Dryden.
2.
To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
3.
To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; – said especially of sound.
Most men being in sensual pleasures
drowned
. Sir J. Davies.
My private voice is
drowned
amid the senate. Addison.
To drown up
, to swallow up.
[Obs.]
Holland.
Webster 1828 Edition
Drown
DROWN
,Verb.
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
,Verb.
I.
Methought what pain it was to drown.