All drown synonyms

verb drown

• drench — to wet thoroughly; soak.
• go down — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• inundate — to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge.
• immerse — to plunge into or place under a liquid; dip; sink.
• soak — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
• flood — a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
• wipe out — an act of wiping: He gave a few quick wipes to the furniture.
• swamp — a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
• suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
• sink — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
• douse — to plunge into water or the like; drench: She doused the clothes in soapy water.
• asphyxiate — If someone is asphyxiated, they die or lose consciousness because they are unable to breathe properly.
• plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
• deluge — A deluge of things is a large number of them which arrive or happen at the same time.
• overwhelm — to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.
• prostrate — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
• obliterate — to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.
• souse — to swoop or pounce upon.
• overpower — to overcome, master, or subdue by superior force: to overpower a maniac.
• sop — a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
• overflow — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
• stifle — to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
• dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
• overcome — to get the better of in a struggle or conflict; conquer; defeat: to overcome the enemy.
• whelm — to submerge; engulf.
• die — When people, animals, and plants die, they stop living.
• saturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
• submerge — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
• hold water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
• cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
• mask — a form of aristocratic entertainment in England in the 16th and 17th centuries, originally consisting of pantomime and dancing but later including dialogue and song, presented in elaborate productions given by amateur and professional actors.
• obscure — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• overlie — to lie over or upon, as a covering or stratum.
• drown out — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
• go under — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• knock over — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.