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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

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

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin

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

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

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

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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