Definition of Drown

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Definition of Drown

Drown

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.

To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.

To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.

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Drown Quotations

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
Steven Wright

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields

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

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Alan Watts

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
Paulo Coelho

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Ann Landers

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Frida Kahlo

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
Jimmy Carter

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole

Drown Translations

drown in Danish is drukne
drown in Dutch is vergaan, verloren gaan, verdrinken
drown in Finnish is hukkua
drown in French is noyer, se noyer, noyez, noyent, noyons
drown in Italian is affogare
drown in Norwegian is drunke
drown in Portuguese is afogue-se
drown in Spanish is ahogarse

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