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.

To overwhelm in water; as, to drown weeds.

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

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

To overwhelm; to overpower. My private voice is drowned amid the senate.

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought what pain it was to drown.