Antonyms for drown
draʊndrown

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1. drownverb

   Synonyms:
   flood

2. drownverb

   To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation.

   Synonyms:
   flood

3. drownverb

   To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.

   Synonyms:
   flood

4. drownverb

   To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.

   Synonyms:
   flood

5. drownverb

   To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; said especially of sound; usually in the form to drown out

   Synonyms:
   flood

6. drownverb

   To lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass

   The CIA gathers so much information that the actual answers it should seek are often drowned in the incessant flood of reports, recordings, satellite images etc.

   Synonyms:
   flood

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. drown

   Antonyms:
   dry, drain, expose, air, ventilate

   Synonyms:
   sink, immerse, swamp, overwhelm, engulf, deluge, inundate, submerge

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. submerge, drown, overwhelmverb

   cover completely or make imperceptible

   "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"

   Synonyms:
   sweep over, overcome, flood out, submerge, overtake, inundate, overwhelm, deluge, overpower, overmaster, whelm, swim, submerse

2. drownverb

   get rid of as if by submerging

   "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"

   Synonyms:
   overwhelm, submerge, swim

3. drownverb

   die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating

   "The child drowned in the lake"

   Synonyms:
   overwhelm, submerge, swim

4. drownverb

   kill by submerging in water

   "He drowned the kittens"

   Synonyms:
   overwhelm, submerge, swim

5. swim, drownverb

   be covered with or submerged in a liquid

   "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"

   Synonyms:
   overwhelm, submerge, float, swim

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1. drownverb

   Synonyms:
   overwhelm, submerge, flood, inundate, deluge

How to use drown in a sentence?

1. Brittany Diggs:

   My biggest fear was he was going to drive this car into a river and I’m going to drown there and no one is going to know I’m in this trunk.

2. David Nyika:

   I thought if I could drown the crowd out I would slow him up a little bit, the first round I silenced the Australians a little bit and let the Kiwis shine.

3. Harold Trompetero:

   For a long time we'll need to adapt ourselves to new ways of doing things under these circumstances. If not, we will drown.

4. Ken Peters:

   At first they tried to drown us out with their own sound and their own protesters, but we kept singing, praying and praising God under our First Amendment rights of assembly and freedom of religion.

5. John H Aughey:

   God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

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