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drown 音标拼音: [dr'ɑʊn] vt. 淹没,淹死;使沉湎,使迷恋 淹没,淹死;使沈湎,使迷恋 drown v 1: cover completely or make imperceptible; " I was drowned in work"; " The noise drowned out her speech" [ synonym: { submerge}, { drown}, { overwhelm}] 2: get rid of as if by submerging; " She drowned her trouble in alcohol" 3: die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; " The child drowned in the lake" 4: kill by submerging in water; " He drowned the kittens" 5: be covered with or submerged in a liquid; " the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy" [ synonym: { swim}, { drown}] Drown \ Drown\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Drowned}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Drowning}.] [ OE. drunen, drounen, earlier drunknen, druncnien, AS. druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See { Drunken}, { Drink}.] To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. [ 1913 Webster] Methought, what pain it was to drown. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Drown \ Drown\, v. t. 1. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. " They drown the land." -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound. [ 1913 Webster] Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned. -- Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster] My private voice is drowned amid the senate. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] { To drown up}, to swallow up. [ Obs.] -- Holland. [ 1913 Webster] 93 Moby Thesaurus words for " drown": OD, asphyxiate, baptize, be clobbered, be felled, be killed, be poleaxed, be staggered, be stricken, bottle up, burke, bury, censor, choke, choke off, clamp down on, come to grief, cork, cork up, crack down on, crush, damp down, deluge, dip, douse, drench, duck, dunk, engulf, extinguish, famish, float, flood, flow on, founder, gag, garrote, have a mishap, hold down, immerge, immerse, inundate, jump on, keep down, keep under, kill, knock over, merge, muzzle, overcome, overflow, overpower, overwhelm, plunge in water, pour on, pour water on, prostrate, put down, quash, quell, quench, rain, repress, run aground, shut down on, silence, sink, sit down on, sit on, sluice, smash, smother, soak, sop, souse, squash, squelch, stanch, starve, stifle, stop the breath, strangle, stultify, subdue, submerge, submerse, suffer a misfortune, suffocate, suppress, swamp, throttle, wet, whelm
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