Definition of drown

"drown" in the verb sense

1. submerge, drown, overwhelm

cover completely or make imperceptible

"I was drowned in work"

"The noise drowned out her speech"

2. drown

get rid of as if by submerging

"She drowned her trouble in alcohol"

3. drown

die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating

"The child drowned in the lake"

4. drown

kill by submerging in water

"He drowned the kittens"

5. swim, drown

be covered with or submerged in a liquid

"the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"

6. drown

be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation

"the divers saved the drowning child"

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Quotations for drown

A gray eye is a sly eye,
And roguish is a brown eye,-
Turn full upon me thy eye,-
Ah, how its wavelets drown one!
A blue eye is a true eye;
Mysterious is a dark one,
Which flashes like a spark-sun!
A black eye is the best one. [ W. R. Alger ]

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man. [ Proverb ]

I taught you to swim, and now you would drown me. [ Proverb ]

By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation. [ Edward Burke ]

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. [ Bible ]

God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. [ Aughey ]

If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown. [ William Shakespeare ]

I have seen more than one woman drown her honor in the clear water of diamonds. [ D'Houdetot ]

Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. [ Bible ]

We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences. [ H. W. Shaw ]

The calumniator is like the dragon that pursued a woman, but, not being able to overtake her, opened his mouth and threw a flood after her to drown her. [ Edward Blunt ]

What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take: and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown. [ Quarles ]

drown in Scrabble®

The word drown is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters drown:

DROWN
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drown in Words With Friends™

The word drown is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters drown:

DROWN
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Words within the letters of drown

2 letter words in drown (5 words)

3 letter words in drown (8 words)

4 letter words in drown (3 words)

5 letter words in drown (1 word)

drown + 1 blank (4 words)

Words containing the sequence drown

Words that start with drown (5 words)

Words with drown in them (1 word)

Words that end with drown (1 word)

Word Growth involving drown

Shorter words in drown

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Longer words containing drown

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