Drown /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Drowned; p. pr. & vb. n. Drowning

1. To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

   Methought, what pain it was to drown.

1. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
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.

   My private voice is drowned amid the senate.