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"I was drowned in work" "The noise drowned out her speech"verbcover completely or make imperceptibletype of:
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verbbe covered with or submerged in a liquid
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"the divers saved the drowning child"verbbe in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation
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"The child drowned in the lake"verbdie from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
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"She drowned her trouble in alcohol"verbget rid of as if by submergingtype of:
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"He drowned the kittens"verbkill by submerging in watertype of:
Definition that contains drown
- hero (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her
- icarus (Greek mythology) son of Daedalus; while escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned
- lifeline line thrown from a vessel that people can cling to in order to save themselves from drowning
- scylla (Greek mythology) a sea nymph transformed into a sea monster who lived on one side of a narrow strait; drowned and devoured sailors who tried to escape Charybdis (a whirlpool) on the other side of the strait
- unintelligible poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise
- barbarossa Holy Roman Emperor from 1152 to 1190; conceded supremacy to the pope; drowned leading the Third Crusade (1123-1190)
- kelpie (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders
- preserver rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning
- leander (Greek mythology) a youth beloved of Hero who drowned in a storm in the Hellespont on one of his nightly visits to see her
- lifesaving saving the lives of drowning persons