Drown

Drown - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

(Ex. 15:4; Amos 8:8; Heb. 11:29). Drowning was a mode of capital punishment in use among the Syrians, and was known to the Jews in the time of our Lord. To this he alludes in Matt. 18:6.

Drown - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

DROWN, v.t.

1. Literally, to overwhelm in water; an appropriately, to extinguish life by immersion in water or other fluid; applied to animals; also, to suspend animation by submersion.

2. To overwhelm in water; as, to drown weeds.

3. To overflow; to deluge; to inundate; as, to drown land.

4. To immerse; to plunge and lose; to overwhelm; as, to drown ones self in sensual pleasure.

5. To overwhelm; to overpower.

My private voice is drowned amid the senate.

DROWN, v.i. To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

Methought what pain it was to drown.