"drown" | Definition and Related Words

Verb

Cover completely or make imperceptible (synset 201341976)
"I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"

is a type of: cover, spread over - form a cover over

same as: overwhelm, submerge
Get rid of as if by submerging (synset 200473463)
"She drowned her trouble in alcohol"

is a type of: do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of - terminate, end, or take out
Die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating (synset 200361154)
"The child drowned in the lake"

is a type of: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it - pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Kill by submerging in water (synset 200479991)
"He drowned the kittens"

is a type of: kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
Be covered with or submerged in a liquid (synset 202761786)
"the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"

is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)

same as: swim
Be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation (synset 202110088)
"the divers saved the drowning child"

is a type of: submerge, submerse - sink below the surface; go under or as if under water