Need another word that means the same as “drown”? Find 24 synonyms and 30 related words for “drown” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Drown” are: overwhelm, submerge, swim, suffocate in water, inhale water, flood, immerse, inundate, deluge, swamp, engulf, drench, soak, cover, saturate, make inaudible, drown out, be louder than, overpower, overcome, override, swallow up, devour, bury
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “drown” as a verb can have the following definitions:
be louder than | Have life, be alive. |
bury | Involve oneself deeply in something to the exclusion of other concerns. He ran through to bury a right foot shot inside the near post. |
cover | Cover as if with a shroud. I moved in front of Hawk to cover him as he reloaded. |
deluge | Fill or cover completely, usually with water. Caravans were deluged by the heavy rains. |
devour | Eat greedily. She was devoured by envy. |
drench | Drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged. Cool patios drenched in flowers. |
drown out | Be covered with or submerged in a liquid. |
engulf | Flow over or cover completely. The bright light engulfed him completely. |
flood | Of a flood force someone to leave their home. His old fears came flooding back. |
immerse | Cause to be immersed. Immerse the paper in water for twenty minutes. |
inhale water | Draw in (air. |
inundate | Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid. The islands may be the first to be inundated as sea levels rise. |
make inaudible | Develop into. |
overcome | Overcome usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome. You must overcome all difficulties. |
overpower | Be too intense for; overwhelm. He overpowered the two men and frogmarched them to the police station. |
override | Rule against. The courts will ultimately override any objections. |
overwhelm | Give too much of something to; inundate. They were overwhelmed by farewell messages. |
saturate | Put (a device) into a state in which no further increase in current is achievable. Japan s electronics industry began to saturate the world markets. |
soak | Fill soak or imbue totally. Cold water was soaking into my shoes. |
submerge | Put under water. The tensions submerged earlier in the campaign now came to the fore. |
suffocate in water | Feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air. |
swallow up | Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing. |
swamp | (of a boat) become overwhelmed with water and sink. The country was swamped with goods from abroad. |
swim | Cross a particular stretch of water by swimming. My brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne. |
airway | The passage by which air reaches a person’s lungs. He kept the man s airway clear and blood circulating. |
awash | Level with the surface of water so that it just washes over. The main deck was afloat or awash. |
capsize | (of a boat) be overturned in the water. The craft capsized in heavy seas. |
choke | A knob which controls the choke in a carburettor. We were the only team not to choke when it came to the crunch. |
clutter | Unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen. The room was cluttered with his bric a brac. |
deluge | A great quantity of something arriving at the same time. He has been deluged with offers of work. |
dive | (of a fish or submarine) go to a deeper level in water. He got into a fight in some dive. |
garrote | Strangle with an iron collar. |
muffle | A kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature. A muffle furnace. |
overwhelm | Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli. They were overwhelmed by farewell messages. |
plunge | Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate. The professor plunged his students into the study of the Italian text. |
raft | Transport on or as if on a raft. Great rafts of cormorants often 5 000 strong. |
scuba | Scuba diving. Scuba gear. |
sea | Used to refer to waves as opposed to calm sea. Rocky bays lapped by vivid blue sea. |
sink | Cause a ship to sink. They planned to sink a gold mine in Oklahoma. |
smother | Form an impenetrable cover over. The goalkeeper was able to smother the ball. |
springboard | A platform fixed to the side of a tree and used by a lumberjack when working at some height from the ground. He uses other people s ideas as a springboard for his own. |
stifle | Restrain (a reaction) or stop oneself acting on (an emotion. She stifled a giggle. |
strangle | Conceal or hide. The imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries. |
submerge | Sink below the surface; go under or as if under water. Houses had been flooded and cars submerged. |
suffocate | Die or cause to die from lack of air or inability to breathe. He said he d suffocate if he remained in this house for another hour. |
suffocation | Difficulty in breathing. The country s slow suffocation under the ever increasing weight of red tape. |
sunken | Having a sunken area. The wreck of a sunken ship. |
surf | A spell of surfing. He fell to his death while surfing on a 70 mph train. |
surfing | The sport of riding a surfboard toward the shore on the crest of a wave. Why share your internet connection with people surfing and chatting. |
swim | Cross a particular stretch of water by swimming. They took a short swim in the pool. |
swimmer | A sperm cell. Red flags to warn swimmers of dangerous currents. |
throttle | A pedal that controls the throttle valve. It has two engines that can be throttled. |
underwater | Submerged; flooded. An epidemic of underwater mortgages. |
welter | Move in a turbulent fashion. The streams foam and welter. |
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