Definition: 1. Cover completely or make imperceptible. 2. Get rid of as if by submerging. 3. Die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating. 4. Kill by submerging in water.
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Use 'drown' in a sentence:
1. We have this fear of the horrible white liquid as if milk were going to drown him.
2. He walked into the sea and drowned himself.
3. It's so noisy outside that I can only turn up the radio to drown the noise out.
4. More people drown in floods.
5. Without keeping the brain active while sleeping, they would probably drown.
6. The conversation was drowned by the arrival of the taxi.
7. In today's weather, though, they would simply drown.
8. She turned up the radio to drown out the noise from next door.
9. Toss it in water, and it'll eventually drown.
10. And drown your fatigue in their sweet scent.
11. Many teens, including some who are good swimmers drown each year.
12. She tried to drown herself.
13. Otherwise you will drown in the flood!
14. Voices rose in a crescendo and drowned him out.
15. A child can drown in only a few inches of water.
16. They said he'd been held under the water and drowned.
17. But the dog stayed out of reach as is knowing both of them would drown if Laurie pulled him under.
18. Last night a boy was drowned in the river.
19. Forty-eight people have drowned after their boat capsized during a storm.
20. How to drown out your inner critic?
21. But four of my friends, they drown.
22. Don't drown out your own thoughts.
23. Their jingling would drown thy whispers.
24. His sailing instructor fell overboard and drowned during a lesson.
25. Animals get tangled in fishing nets and drown.
26. I was grateful to escape the running water that was about to drown my car.
27. It is quite possible for a man to drown in his bath.
28. Police plucked a drowning girl from the river yesterday.
29. When, just after the noonday dinner, the goodwife gave him a basket of kittens to drown, he did resign.
30. I think I read somewhere that they used music to drown out the sound of the film projectors?
31. Don't swim out too far from shore or you could drown.
32. But it was as if she wanted us to drown together.
33. If you have the kind of job that requires you to be instantly available, wear a pair of noise-canceling headphones to drown out office chatter.
34. It was as if she wanted us to drown together.
35. They had drowned the unwanted kittens.
36. Dolphins have sometimes been known to save drowning swimmers.
37. In attempting to save the child from drowning, she nearly lost her own life.
38. They drown out Orpheus' music with the hideous roar of their howlings and their screamings and they tear him limb from limb.
39. He drowned after 30 minutes in the rough seas.
40. We were drowning in data but starved of information.
41. Clapping drowned the speaker's words for a moment.
42. He rescued a child from drowning.
43. He had attempted to rescue the drowning man.
44. APEC seems be drowning in an ocean of jargon.
45. Teenager Matt Brown is being hailed a hero for saving a young child from drowning.
46. Most float on water only a short time before they tire, sink, and drown.
47. The fruit was drowned in cream.
48. Three sailors are missing, believed drowned.
49. Two children drowned after falling into the river.
50. He was drowned at sea.
51. When he was fishing off the island he was caught in a storm and almost drowned.
52. His middle son died in a drowning accident five years back.
53. She saved him from drowning.
54. They were forcing her head under the icy waters, drowning her.
55. They drown when the tide rises, for then it is submerged.
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