Synonyms for drown
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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

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

   Antonyms:
   dry, drain, expose, air, ventilate

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Be
   • Die
   • Get Rid Of
   • Kill

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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

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1. drownverb

   Synonyms:
   overwhelm, submerge, flood, inundate, deluge

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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. Teddy Goff:

   It wasn't as if we all kind of retreated into a bunker to drown our sorrows or anything like that, in the midst of that day, discovering that we were really rebuilding a list virtually from scratch, it was a realization that there was going to be a tough road ahead.

2. 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,'.

3. Yiddish Proverb:

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

4. 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.

5. Melissa Flournoy:

   It is offensive that Governor Bobby Jindal continues to play political games with women’s health care, governor Jindal can not drown out the voices of Louisianans who want access to STI testing, birth control, and lifesaving cancer screenings. We are not going anywhere.