Word Finder - drowns

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To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

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To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.

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To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.

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To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.

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(usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.

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The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather.

A sinking man who clutches at another and drowns him; or a hungry mother exhausted by feeding her baby, who steals some food; or a man trained to discipline who on duty at the word of command kills a defenseless man-- seem less guilty, that is, less free and more subject to the law of necessity, to one who knows the circumstances in which these people were placed, and more free to one who does not know that the man was himself drowning, that the mother was hungry, that the soldier was in the ranks, and so on.

You may think the exceptionally long length helps hide trouble spots, but it's better to choose a well-fitted piece than one that drowns your body.

The noise-canceling microphone drowns out the loudest of settings so that you can concentrate only on winning.

The modern Wagnerian conductor is apt to complain that Beethoven, in his four-bar phrase, drowns a melody which lies in the weakest register of the clarinet by a crowd of superfluous notes in oboes, horns and flutes.