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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Drown

/droun/ · IPA /dɹaʊn/
01 v. i. To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
imp. & p. p. Drowned; p. pr. & vb. n. Drowning
  1. 1.
    To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
    “Methought, what pain it was to drown.” — Shak.
02 v. t. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
  1. 1.
    To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
  2. 2.
    To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
  3. 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.
Phrases & compounds
To drown up — to swallow up.