1. Overcome completely
   "The valley was overwhelmed by lava"; "I was submerged in work"; "I was drowned in work"
    
2. Kill by submerging in water
   "He drowned the kittens"
    
3. Be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation
   "the divers saved the drowning child"
    
4. Be covered with or submerged in a liquid
   "the meat was drowning in a fatty gravy";
   - swim
    
5. Cover completely or make imperceptible
   "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech";
   - submerge, overwhelm
    
6. Get rid of as if by submerging
   "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"

Derived forms: drowned, drowns, drowning

Type of: be, buy the farm [N. Amer, informal], cash in [informal], cash in one's chips [informal], conk [informal], cop it [Brit, informal], cover, croak [informal], decease [archaic], die, do away with, drop dead [informal], eliminate, exist, exit, expire, extinguish, flatline [informal], get rid of, give up the ghost [informal], go, kick the bucket [informal], kill, pass, pass away, pass on, perish, pop off [informal], pop one's clogs [informal], snuff it [informal], spread over, submerge, submerse

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