drown

/draun/

Thân thiện

Definition

1. Verb (Transitive):

   • To kill by submerging in a liquid, typically water: To cause the death of a person or animal by preventing them from breathing air, usually by holding them under water.
   • To cover or submerge completely in a liquid: To flood or inundate something so that it is covered.
   • To make imperceptible by being much louder or more intense: To overpower a sound or sensation, making it impossible to hear or notice.

2. Verb (Intransitive):

   • To die from submersion in water and resultant asphyxiation: To suffer death because water enters the lungs, preventing breathing.
   • To be overwhelmed or engulfed by something non-physical: To be consumed or deeply immersed in a powerful feeling, situation, or activity.

Examples of Usage

• Verb (Transitive):

  • The cruel king ordered his guards to drown the prisoner.
  • Heavy rains threatened to drown the crops in the field.
  • The loud music from the party drowned our conversation.

• Verb (Intransitive):

  • If you can't swim, you could drown in that deep lake.
  • After the loss, she felt she would drown in her own sadness.

Advanced Usage

• "to drown one's sorrows": To try to forget problems, especially by drinking alcohol.

  • After the bad news, he went to the bar to drown his sorrows.

• "to drown out": To make a sound inaudible by producing a louder sound.

  • We turned up the radio to drown out the noise of the construction.

• "like a drowned rat": Soaked and dripping wet.

  • I forgot my umbrella and came home looking like a drowned rat.

Variants and Related Words

• Drowning (n/adj): The process of dying from submersion in water; experiencing this.
  • The lifeguard prevented a drowning.
  • We rescued the drowning man.

Synonyms

• Submerge: To put or go under water or another liquid.
• Inundate: To overwhelm or flood.
• Overwhelm: To bury or drown beneath a huge mass.
• Suffocate: To die or cause to die from lack of air or inability to breathe.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Drown in: To be overwhelmed by a large amount of something (often non-physical).
  • The company is drowning in debt.
• Drown out: (See "Advanced Usage" above).

Related Idioms

• A drowning man will clutch at a straw: A person in desperate trouble will try anything, even if it is unlikely to help.
  • He invested his last money in a risky scheme—a drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Học thuật

Verb

1. be covered with or submerged in a liquid
   • the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy
2. kill by submerging in water
   • He drowned the kittens
3. die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
   • The child drowned in the lake
4. get rid of as if by submerging
   • She drowned her trouble in alcohol
5. cover completely or make imperceptible
   • I was drowned in work
   • The noise drowned out her speech

Từ đồng nghĩa

• swim
• submerge
• overwhelm