drown

English Thesaurus

1. die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating (verb.change)

hypernym	:	buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it,
definition	:	pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life (verb.change)

2. get rid of as if by submerging (verb.change)

hypernym	:	do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of,
definition	:	terminate, end, or take out (verb.change)

3. kill by submerging in water (verb.change)

hypernym	:	kill,
definition	:	cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly (verb.contact)

4. cover completely or make imperceptible (verb.contact)

hypernym	:	cover, spread over,
definition	:	form a cover over (verb.contact)

5. be covered with or submerged in a liquid (verb.stative)

hypernym	:	be,
definition	:	have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) (verb.stative)

6. cover completely or make imperceptible (verb.contact)

also	:	drown out,
definition	:	make imperceptible (verb.perception)

also	:	drown out,
definition	:	make imperceptible (verb.perception)