drown

1. (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.Examples: "When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub."; "Old woes, not infant sorrows, bear them mild / Continuance tames the one; the other wild, / Like an unpractised swimmer plunging still, / With too much labour drowns for want of skill."Synonyms: drench

2. (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.Examples: "The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping."; "The pretty-vaulting sea refused to drown me, / Knowing that thou wouldst have me drown’d on shore, / With tears as salt as sea, through thy unkindness:"Synonyms: drench, noyade

3. (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.Examples: "We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom."; "Penny Guy: Bloody hell, Rog, whadda you want? / Roger O'Neill: To drown in your arms and hide in yer eyes, darlin'."; "The first-century Jewish woman Miriam of Nazareth, also held in faith to be Theotokos, the God-bearer, is arguably the most celebrated woman in the Christian tradition. One could almost drown surveying the ways different eras have honored her in painting, sculpture, icons, architecture, music and poetry; venerated her with titles, liturgies, prayers and feasts; and taught about her in spiritual writings, theology and official doctrine."

4. (transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.Examples: "He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream."; "Though most men being in sensuall pleasures drownd, / It seemes their Soules but in the Senses are."; "Come, thou monarch of the vine, / Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne! / In thy fats our cares be drown’d, / With thy grapes our hairs be crown’d:"

5. (transitive, figurative, usually passive voice) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.Examples: "The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather."