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 Drown, v. t.
 1. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. “They drown the land.”
 2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
 3. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.
    Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned.   --Sir J. Davies.
    My private voice is drowned amid the senate.   --Addison.
 To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.]
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