drown
- to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- to kill by submerging under water or other liquid.
- to destroy or get rid of by, or as if by, immersion: He drowned his sorrows in drink.
- to flood or inundate.
- to overwhelm so as to render inaudible, as by a louder sound (often followed by out).
- to add too much water or liquid to (a drink, food, or the like).
- to slake (lime) by covering with water and letting stand.
- drown in,
- to be overwhelmed by: The company is drowning in bad debts.
- to be covered with or enveloped in: The old movie star was drowning in mink.
Origin of drown
Synonyms for drown
Examples from the Web for half-drowned
Historical Examples of half-drowned
Lambert came to himself with a half-drowned sense of suffocation.
The Duke Of Chimney ButteG. W. Ogden
You get half-drowned, or drowned altogether, before you discover your danger.
Angling SketchesAndrew Lang
And seems to me it sounded like a half-drowned shout for help.
Afloat on the FloodLawrence J. Leslie
The engineer placed the half-drowned creature by its mother's side.
Brooks's Readers, Third YearStratton D. Brooks
"Not about a half-drowned girl taking the trouble to wash her face," he said.
The Seven DarlingsGouverneur Morris
half-drowned
- nearly dead or killed by immersion in liquidhalf-drowned crewmen lay on the planks
drown
- to die or kill by immersion in liquid
- (tr) to destroy or get rid of as if by submerginghe drowned his sorrows in drink
- (tr) to drench thoroughly; inundate; flood
- (tr sometimes foll by out) to render (a sound) inaudible by making a loud noise
Word Origin for drown
Word Origin and History for half-drowned
drown
c.1300, transitive and intransitive, perhaps from an unrecorded derivative word of Old English druncnian (Middle English druncnen) "be swallowed up by water" (originally of ships as well as living things), probably from the base of drincan "to drink."
Modern form is from northern England dialect, probably influenced by Old Norse drukna "be drowned." Related: Drowned; drowning.
Idioms and Phrases with half-drowned
drown
In addition to the idioms beginning with drown
- drown one's sorrows
- drown out
also see:
- like a drowned rat