Drown, v. t. 1. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. “They drown the land.” Dryden.
2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
3. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; — said especially of sound.
Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned. Sir J. Davies.
My private voice is drowned amid the senate. Addison.
To drown up, to swallow up. Holland.