Drown

Definition: Drown

Drown

Verb

1. Cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech".

2. Get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol".

3. Die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake".

4. Kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens".

Date "drown" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Domain	Definition
Bible	Drown (Ex. 15:4; Amos 8:8; Heb. 11:29). Drowning was a mode of capital punishment in use among the Syrians, and was known to the Jews in the time of our Lord. To this he alludes in Matt. 18:6. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Drown

Synonyms: overwhelm (v), submerge (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amusement	Amuse oneself, game; play a game, play pranks, play tricks; sport, disport, toy, wanton, revel, junket, feast, carouse, banquet, make merry, drown care; drive dull care away; frolic, gambol, frisk, romp; caper; dance; (leap); keep up the ball; run a rig, sow one's wild oats, have one's fling, take one's pleasure; paint the town red; see life; desipere in loco, play the fool.
Aphony	Silence; render mute, render silent; muzzle, muffle, suppress, smother, gag, strike dumb, dumfounder; drown the voice, put to silence, stop one's mouth, cut one short.
Failure	Limp, halt, hobble, titubate; fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one's head against a stone wall, run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief; (adversity); go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb; (submit); not have a leg to stand on.
Killing	Strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown.
Success	Settle, do for; break the neck of, break the back of; capsize, sink, shipwreck, drown, swamp; subdue; subjugate; (subject); reduce; make the enemy bite the dust; victimize, roll in the dust, trample under foot, put an extinguisher upon.
Water	Add water, water, wet; moisten; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Drown

English words defined with "drown": Dreint, Drenche, Dreynt, Drowning ♦ European lemming ♦ Indrench ♦ kelpie, kelpy ♦ Lemmus lemmus ♦ regret, ruefulness ♦ sorrow. (references)

Specialty definitions using "drown": Drown the Miller ♦ Glasgow Arms, Guinea-hen ♦ Noyades. (references)

Etymologies containing "drown": Drenche ♦ Indrench ♦ Noyade. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Listen. If we can't break the ice, how 'bout we drown it? (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) But if I dammed it, it would drown all the wildlife! (Young Einstein; writing credit: David Roach and Yahoo Serious.) Someone or something just tried to drown me in a tub of blood, the size of a Buick! (House on Haunted Hill; writing credit: Dick Beebe) I could drown you too easily. (The Phantom of the Opera; writing credit: Gerry O'Hara) When you get the machine started, drown him first, will you? (The Rainmakers; writing credit: Grant Garett; Leslie Goodwins)
Lyrics	To drown a memory (Don't Rock The Jukebox; performing artist: Alan Jackson) Makin' love until we drown. (I Wanna Sex You Up; performing artist: Color Me Badd) Downtown we'll drown (I'll Tumble 4 Ya; performing artist: Culture Club) And drown your fear (#1 Crush; performing artist: Garbage) I turn up the radio to drown it out (But For The Grace Of God; performing artist: Keith Urban)
Clever	I could drown in a frown and swim in a smile. (references; author: unknown) Those who drink to drown their sorrows should be taught that sorrows know how to swim. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	A River to Drown In (1997) 'Till Human Voices Wake Us and We Drown (1996)
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Domain	Title
Books	As Bees In Honey Drown (reference) Don't Drown in the Carpool (reference) Drown (reference) Drown All the Dogs (reference) Even Lovers Drown (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Drown (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Watch Out! : A child can drown in the blink of an eye. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Lucy Lincoln Drown. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Clay, "Iz", and McNichols (?) holding down "Penn" to drown in "Philadelphia indebtedness" while "U.G.I." has row boat in distance with money. Credit: Library of Congress.		West Danville, Vermont. "What else will it be today, Mrs. Metcalf?" asks Mrs. Hastings, who has clerked in the general store owned by Mr. and Mrs. Hastings for twenty-nine years. Ronald Drown is looking on. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Water; car wash; garden hose; bathe; bespatter; broadcast; dabble; dash; douse; drench; drown; get wet; moisten; paddle; plash; plunge; shower; slop; slosh; soak; sop; spatter; splatter; spray; spread; sprinkle; squirt; squirt; strew; throw; wade; wallow.		Fire; extinguisher; extinguish; put out; fireman; firefighter; douse; dout; drown; out; quench; smother; snuff out; stamp out; stifle; suffocate.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Edmund Burke	By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Oscar Wilde	If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded	Carroll, Lewis	I rush in, and save one of the children, and then walk away, leaving the other to drown.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	he did not seek to drown grief in oblivion, but to exalt and to dignify it by hope.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	Alarums] Either be patient and entreat me fair, Or with the clamorous report of war Thus will I drown your exclamations.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Drown" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 84.26% of the time. "Drown" is used about 343 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	84.26%	289	17,124
Lexical Verb (base form)	11.66%	40	54,274
Noun (singular)	3.5%	12	101,599
Noun (proper)	0.58%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	343	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "drown" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Drown	Last name	1,000	10,513
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "drown": drown one's sorrows in alcohol ♦ drown oneself ♦ drown out ♦ Drown radio therapy ♦ drown the voice ♦ To drown up. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "drown": do-or-drown.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "drown"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shuaj (beat out, blanket, blow out, Burke, clean off, damp, delete, douse, efface, erase, expunge, extinguish, kill, obliterate, out, quash, quell, quench, rake out, remove, scratch out, settle, slack, slake, suppress, turn off, ungear, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wither), përmbyt (deluge, flood, inundate, overflow, submerge, submerse, swamp, waterlog), mbytem (be drowned, choke, drown oneself, get drowned, go under, smother), mbyt (asphyxiate, assail, blanket, choke, deluge, jugulate, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle, wreck). (various references)

Arabic		‏غمر بالماء (bathe, submergence), ‏غرق (deluge, dip, drowning, eject, founder, go under, grub, relapse, shipwright, sink, sinking, submergence, swamp, wreck), ‏حجب بالماء, ‏تخلص من (clear off, disembarrass, disengage, disposal, dispose of, ditch, do dispose of, doff, elimination, escape, exorcise, exorcize, free, get out of, get rid of, jettison, liquidate, mop up, outgrow, polish up, put off, rid, scrap, sell up, shake, shake off, slough, turn, turn off, weed, weed out, work off), ‏تركه يغرق. (various references)

Bulgarian		удавям (be drowned), наводнявам (deluge, float, flood, flow, inundate, swamp, water), заглушавам (black out, deaden, deafen, dull, intercept, jam, jam out, kill, obstruct, overgrow, silence), давя (bait, choke, strangle, worry). (various references)

Chinese		溺 (urinate, urine), 淊 (submerge, tears), 淹没 (Deluged, Deluging, Drowned, Drowning, Overwhelm, overwhelmed, Overwhelming, submerge, submerged, submerging), 淹 (submerge), 使溺死 . (various references)

Czech		utopit, překrýt (superimpose), překřièet (hoot down, shout down, talk down), přehlušit. (various references)

Danish		drukne. (various references)

Dutch		verloren gaan (be lost, get lost), vergaan (march off, pass, pass by, perish, putrefy, retreat, rot, withdraw), verdrinken (wash out). (various references)

Esperanto		dronigi, droni. (various references)

Faeroese		drukna. (various references)

Farsi		غرق کردن (Deluge, Flood), غرق شدن (Merge, Sink), خیس کردن (Douse, Ret, Sluice, Swill). (various references)

Finnish		hukkua (be drowned, be lost, get lost). (various references)

French		noyer (drink away), se noyer. (various references)

Frisian		ferdrinke. (various references)

German		ertrinken (be drowned, drowning), ertränken, ersaufen (be drowned, be flooded, flood), übertöne. (various references)

Greek		πνίγομαι (choke, suffocate, throttle). (various references)

Hebrew		לשקע (put in, set down, sink, submerge), לטבוע (be drowned, sink), לטבע (sink, submerge). (various references)

Hungarian		vízbe fullad (be drowned, to be drowned, to drown, to get drowned), megfullad (get drowned, to choke, to drown, to smother, to suffocate). (various references)

Indonesian		membenamkan (immerse, scuttle, sink, suppress), membanjiri (flood, inundate, overrun). (various references)

Irish		báigh. (various references)

Italian		annegare, annegarsi, affogare (asphyxiate, choke, sink, smother, suffocate, suffocation). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		身投�' (drown oneself, throw oneself into water), 溺れ込む (to become infatuated, to drown, to get addicted), 溺らす (to cause to be indulged or addicted, to drown). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おぼれ�"む (to become infatuated, to drown, to get addicted), おぼらす (to cause to be indulged or addicted, to drown), みな�' (drown oneself, throw oneself into water). (various references)

Korean		익사하십시�". (various references)

Manx		mooghey (blank off, blot out, blow out, choking, damp, dull, expire, extinction, extinguish, gulp back, hold back, hush up, jam, quench, shut off, stamp out, stifle, suppress, switch off, turn off), baihaghey (invest), baih (elide, elision, flood, inundation, saturate, submerge, submersion), baighey (elide, elision, invest). (various references)

Norwegian		drunke. (various references)

Pig Latin		owndray

Portuguese		afogar (gulp, submerge). (various references)

Romanian		se îneca (choke, gag), îneca (choke, deluge, float, flood, flush, inundate, overflow, smother, steep, stifle, suffocate, suffuse, swamp). (various references)

Russian		тонуть (go under, sink). (various references)

Scottish		b� th (quench, slake, vain). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		utopiti, udaviti se (be drowned, drown oneself, get drowned, go under), tonuti (sink). (various references)

Spanish		ahogarse (choke, smother, stifle, suffocate, throttle). (various references)

Swedish		dränka (engulf, smother, submerge, swamp), drunkna (be drowned, drowned (get)). (various references)

Thai		ท่วมท้น (inundate, swallow, sweeping), จมน้ำ. (various references)

Turkish		boğmak (asphyxiate, Burke, choke, glut, inundate, jugulate, overwhelm, smother, smother with, stifle, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, throttle, whelm). (various references)

Turkmen		gark bilmak. (various references)

Ukrainian		тонути (go under, sink), топити (burn, heat, render down, sink), заглушати (damp, deaf, deafen, muffle, narcotize, stifle), занурювати (dip, douse, dowse, duck, enwrap, immerse, plunge, steep). (various references)

Welsh		boddi (flood). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	mergeretur, merserint. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	besencan. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	1 Timothy Chapter 6, Verse 9
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Oi de boulomenoi ploutein empiptousin eiV peirasmon kai pagida kai epiqumiaV pollaV anohtouV kai blaberaV aitineV buqizousin touV anqrwpouV eiV oleqron kai apwleian
Latin	405	Vulgate	Nam qui volunt divites fieri incidunt in temptationem et laqueum et desideria multa inutilia et nociva quae mergunt homines in interitum et perditionem
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	For thei that wolen be maad riche, fallen in to temptacioun, and `in to snare of the deuel, and in to many vnprofitable desiris and noyous, whiche drenchen men in to deth and perdicioun.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	They that wilbe ryche faule into temptacio and snares and into many folysshe and noysome lustes which droune me in perdicion and destruccion.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	But they that will be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	1 Timothy Chapter 6, Verse 9
Cebuano	Apan sila nga maikagon gayud nga mahimong dato mangahulog ngadto sa panulay, ngadto sa bitik, ngadto sa daghang binoang ug makadaut nga mga pagpangibug nga nagaunlod sa mga tawo ngadto sa kamatayon ug sa pagkalaglag.
Croatian	Jer oni koji se hoæe bogatiti, upadaju u napast, zamku i mnoge nerazumne i štetne požude što ljude strovaljuju u zator i propast.
Danish	Men de, som ville være rige, falde i Fristelse og Snare og mange ufornuftige og skadelige Begæringer, som nedsænke Menneskene i Undergang og Fortabelse;
Dutch	Doch die rijk willen worden, vallen in verzoeking, en in den strik, en in vele dwaze en schadelijke begeerlijkheden, welke de mensen doen verzinken in verderf en ondergang.
Finnish	Mutta ne, jotka rikastua tahtovat, lankeavat kiusaukseen ja paulaan ja moniin mielettömiin ja vahingollisiin himoihin, jotka upottavat ihmiset turmioon ja kadotukseen.
French	Mais ceux qui veulent s`enrichir tombent dans la tentation, dans le piège, et dans beaucoup de désirs insensés et pernicieux qui plongent les hommes dans la ruine et la perdition.
German	Denn die da reich werden wollen, die fallen in Versuchung und Stricke und viel törichte und schädliche Lüste, welche versenken die Menschen ins Verderben und Verdammnis.
Haitian Creole	Men, moun ki vle vin rich, yo tonbe nan tantasyon. Yo kite yon bann move lanvi san sans pran yo nan pèlen. Se lanvi sa yo k'ap fè moun pèdi tou sa yo genyen, k'ap fini nèt ak yo.
Hungarian	A kik pedig meg akarnak gazdagodni, kísértetbe meg tõrbe és sok esztelen és káros kívánságba esnek, melyek az embereket veszedelembe és romlásba merítik.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Tetapi orang yang mau menjadi kaya, tergoda dan terjerat oleh bermacam-macam keinginan yang bodoh dan yang merusak. Keinginan-keinginan itu membuat orang menjadi hancur dan celaka.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Tetapi orang yang berkehendakkan menjadi kaya itu jatuh ke dalam pencobaan dan jerat dan banyak keinginan yang bodoh dan yang mendatangkan bencana, yang menenggelamkan manusia ke dalam kerusakan dan kebinasaan.
Italian	Al contrario coloro che vogliono arricchire, cadono nella tentazione, nel laccio e in molte bramosie insensate e funeste, che fanno affogare gli uomini in rovina e perdizione.
Latvian	Jo tie, kas grib kïût bagâti, krît kârdinâðanâ un sâtana valgâ, un daudzâs nevajadzîgâs un kaitîgâs kârîbâs, kas cilvçkus grûþ pazuðanâ un samaitâðanâ.
Maori	Ko te hunga ia e hiahia ana kia whai taonga, ka taka ratou ki te whakamatautauranga, ki te mahanga, ki te tini o nga hiahia kuware e raru ai, e totohu ai nga tangata ki te whakangaromanga, a huna iho.
Norwegian	men de som vil bli rike, faller i fristelse og snare og mange dårlige og skadelige lyster, som senker menneskene ned i undergang og fortapelse.
Portuguese	Mas os que querem tornar-se ricos caem em tentação e em laço, e em muitas concupiscências loucas e nocivas, as quais submergem os homens na ruína e na perdição.
Rumanian	Cei ce vor sq se kmbogqyeascq, dimpotrivq, cad kn ispitq, kn lay wi kn multe pofte nesqbuite wi vqtqmqtoare, cari cufundq pe oameni kn prqpqd, wi pierzare.
Russian	б ЦЕМБАЭЙЕ П�'ПЗБЭБФШУС Ч� Б�"БАФ Ч ЙУЛХЫЕОЙЕ Й Ч УЕФШ Й ЧП НОПЗЙЕ �'ЕЪТБУУХ�"ОЩЕ Й ЧТЕ�"ОЩЕ � ПИПФЙ, ЛПФПТЩЕ � ПЗТХЦБАФ МА�"ЕК Ч �'Е�"УФЧЙЕ Й � БЗХ�'Х;
Shuar	Antsu Kuítrintin ajastaj tuinia nu, tunaanum awankemkar iniainiawai. Tura antra nuna wakerukar itiurchatan Wáiniainiawai. Nujai emesratniunmasha jeainiawai.
Swahili	Lakini wale wanaotaka kutajirika huanguka katika majaribu, na kunaswa katika mtego wa tamaa nyingi mbaya za kipumbavu, ambazo huwavuta mpaka kwenye uharibifu na maangamizi.
Swedish	Men de som vilja bliva rika, de råka in i frestelser och snaror och hemfalla åt många dåraktiga och skadliga begärelser, som sänka människorna ned i fördärv och undergång.
Uma	Aga tauna to doko' mo'ua', mojoli-ra rasori mpobabehi jeko', wori' kahinaa to mpohilu' -ra. Kahinaa-ra toe uma ria kalaua-na, mpokeni silaka lau-wadi. Ka'omea-na, manusia' to doko' mo'ua', monawu' hi rala jeko', alaa-na silaka-ramo.
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "drown": drownd, drownded, drownding, drownds, drowned, drowner, drowners, drowning, drownings, drowns. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Drown" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deron, dorwi, dowan, downm, dowwnn, draow, drawen, Drawne, drawyn, drefn, dreow, drewn, drgw, droan, droaw, droin, dron, drong, dront, droon, Drouyn, drow, drowe, drowl, drownd, drowny, drowr, drowt, drowy, drw, Rown. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "drown" (pronounced drou"n)
3	-r ou" n	Brown, crown, frown.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-n-o-r-w"
	-1 letter: down, word, worn.
	-2 letters: don, dor, dow, nod, nor, now, own, rod, row, won.
	-3 letters: do, no, od, on, or, ow, wo.
	Words containing the letters "d-n-o-r-w"
	+1 letter: downer, drownd, drowns, onward, wonder.
	+2 letters: browned, crowned, decrown, downers, downier, drownds, drowned, drowner, endower, frowned, nonword, onwards, reendow, rewound, rubdown, rundown, windrow, wonders, wording, wronged.
	+3 letters: browband, cordwain, crowding, danewort, decrowns, discrown, dowering, downpour, downtrod, downturn, downward, drawdown, drownded, drowners, drowning, drowsing, endowers, handwork, ironweed, ironwood, loanword, markdown, moonward, narrowed, nonwords, outdrawn, overwind, rawboned, reendows, renowned, rubdowns, rundowns, sandworm, sandwort, snowbird, snowdrop, swordman, swordmen, teardown, turndown, undertow, untoward, unworked, wanderoo, windrows, wondered, wonderer, wondrous, woodener, wordings, worsened.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
drown	68	drown man underwater	3
around don drown t turn	16	diaz drown junot	3
destin drown	10	drown jonathan	2
drown proofing	9	drown pumpkin smashing	2
drown foundation joseph	7	army drown proofing	2
drown ruth	6	curtis drown	2
drown nba	5	drown go merry	2
as bee in honey drown	5	destin drown florida	2
drown florida	4	2003 drown obituary	2
river made to drown in	4	canada drown river	2
drown lyrics pumpkin smashing	3	drown sears	2
drown five florida off panhandle	3	clown drown	2
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Drown

Definition: Drown

Drown

Verb

Specialty Definition: Drown

Synonyms: Drown

Synonyms within Context: Drown

Amusement

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Water

Crosswords: Drown

Modern Usage: Drown

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Sounds Captioned with "Drown".

Familiar Quotations: Drown

Edmund Burke

Oscar Wilde

Use in Literature: Drown

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Usage Frequency: Drown

Name Usage Frequency: Drown

Expression: Drown

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Drown

Modern Translation: Drown

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