drown
d rown
- v cover completely or make imperceptible
I was drowned in work
The noise drowned out her speech - v get rid of as if by submerging
She drowned her trouble in alcohol - v die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
The child drowned in the lake - v kill by submerging in water
He drowned the kittens - v be covered with or submerged in a liquid
- Bush wants his State of the Union speech to drown out those stories linking the disgraced company and the White House CNN AllPolitics.
- Theres debate about the causes, but rising seas are lapping away the edges of tiny island nationsand could eventually drown them.
- Bush wants his State of the Union speech to drown out those stories linking the disgraced company and the White House Enron Takes A Life An Inside Look Cliff Baxter's once .