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Synonyms for drown
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Wiktionary3.0 / 2 votes

  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 Antonyms1.0 / 1 vote

  1. drown

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

    Antonyms:
    dry, drain, expose, air, ventilate

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 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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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. drownverb

    Synonyms:
    kill by immersing

  2. drownverb

    Synonyms:
    overflow, inundate, deluge, overwhelm, flood

  3. drownverb

    Synonyms:
    overcome, overpower

  4. drownverb

    Synonyms:
    be drowned

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. drownverb

    Synonyms:
    overwhelm, submerge, flood, inundate, deluge

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "drown":

    walnut, drowns, drowned, drone, drowning, sank, submerge, sink

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How to use drown in a sentence?

  1. Sarah Whitey:

    It was like a tsunami, the only thing I was thinking of was, I don't want my son to drown, I don't want my son to drown. I just wanted to keep him up, so I just held onto that pram as long as I could.

  2. Michael J. Gelb:

    Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.

  3. Charles De Gaulle:

    Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

  4. Raj Dasgupta:

    We're talking loud, obnoxious snoring, the type that would drown out conversations or be heard through closed doors, some of the very descriptive bed partners of my patients with obstructive sleep apnea describe their partners' snores as listening to a' dying bear' or a scene from' Jurassic Park,'.

  5. Yiddish Proverb:

    If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.


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