If something drowns a sound, it is so loud that you cannot hear that sound properly. Clapping drowned the speaker's words for a moment Drown out means the same as drown. Their cheers drowned out the protests of demonstrators
die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"
To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; - said especially of sound. Usually in the form "drown out"
die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake" get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol" kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens
emphasis If you say that a person or thing is drowning in something, you are emphasizing that they have a very large amount of it, or are completely covered in it. people who gradually find themselves drowning in debt The potatoes were drowned in chilli
When someone drowns or is drowned, they die because they have gone or been pushed under water and cannot breathe. A child can drown in only a few inches of water Last night a boy was drowned in the river He walked into the sea and drowned himself Dolphins have sometimes been known to save drowning swimmers
(Ex 15: 4; Amos 8: 8; Heb 11: 29) Drowning was a mode of capital punishment in use among the Syrians, and was known to the Jews in the time of our Lord To this he alludes in Matt 18: 6
If you say that someone is drowning their sorrows, you mean that they are drinking alcohol in order to forget something sad or upsetting that has happened to them