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drown
Overview of verb drown
The verb drown has 4 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (3) submerge, drown, overwhelm -- (cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech")
2. (2) drown -- (get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol")
3. (2) drown -- (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake")
4. (1) drown -- (kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens")
Antonyms of verb drown
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb drown
4 senses of drown
Sense 1
submerge, drown, overwhelm
=> cover, spread over
=> touch, adjoin, meet, contact
Also See> drown out#1
Sense 2
drown
=> eliminate, get rid of, do away with
=> destroy, destruct
=> unmake, undo
Sense 3
drown
=> die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
=> change state, turn
=> change
Sense 4
drown
=> kill
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb drown
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb drown
4 senses of drown
Sense 1
submerge, drown, overwhelm
=> cover, spread over
Also See> drown out#1
Sense 2
drown
=> eliminate, get rid of, do away with
Sense 3
drown
=> die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
Sense 4
drown
=> kill
'Cause To' of verb drown
Derived Forms of verb drown
Domain of verb drown
Domain Terms of verb drown
Familiarity of verb drown
drown used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Sample Sentences of verb drown
4 senses of drown
Sense 1
submerge, drown, overwhelm
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 2
drown
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 3
drown
*> Somebody ----s
Sense 4
drown
EX: They want to drown the prisoners
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb drown
4 senses of drown
Sense 1
submerge, drown, overwhelm
> cover, spread over
=> flood
=> bloody
=> mist, mist over
=> glaciate
=> strew
=> grass, grass over
=> coat, cake
=> submerge, drown, overwhelm
=> mantle
=> blanket
=> carpet
=> smother
=> shroud
Sense 2
drown
> eliminate, get rid of, do away with
=> cancel out, wipe out
=> decouple
=> decouple
=> obliterate
=> knock out
=> drown
=> cut out
=> cut, prune, rationalize, rationalise
=> snuff out, extinguish
=> exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take out
Sense 3
drown
> die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
=> abort
=> suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate
=> buy it, pip out
=> drown
=> predecease
=> starve, famish
=> fall
=> succumb, yield
Sense 4
drown
> kill
=> eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
=> decimate
=> drown
=> massacre, slaughter, mow down
=> erase, wipe out
=> butcher, slaughter
=> poison
=> stone, lapidate
=> poison
=> commit suicide
=> dispatch
=> zap, vaporize
=> sacrifice
=> take off
=> tomahawk
=> destroy
=> saber, sabre
=> overlie, overlay
=> brain
=> put away, put to sleep
=> neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in
=> exterminate, kill off
=> smother, asphyxiate, suffocate
=> strangle, strangulate, throttle
=> decapitate, behead, decollate
=> impale, stake
=> dismember
=> martyr
=> shed blood
=> murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
=> assassinate
=> execute, put to death
=> draw, quarter, draw and quarter
=> lynch
=> shoot, pip
=> electrocute, fry
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb drown
Sense 1
submerge, drown, overwhelm
=> cover, spread over
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Sense 2
drown
=> eliminate, get rid of, do away with
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Sense 3
drown
=> die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
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Sense 4
drown
=> kill
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Grep of verb drown
drown
drown out
Grep of adj drown
drowned
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