drowning

Verb

drown (third-person singular simple present drowns, present participle drowning, simple past and past participle drowned)

1. (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
   • When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.

   Synonyms:

   drench

2. (transitive) 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.

   Synonyms:

   drench, noyade

3. (intransitive) 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.
4. (figuratively, transitive) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
   • He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream.
5. (figuratively, transitive, usually passive voice) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
   • The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather.

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