drown

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
drown/draʊn/

▶verb

• 1 die or kill through submersion in water.

• 2 submerge or flood (an area).

• 3 (usu. drown something out) make inaudible by being much louder.

– phrases
drown one's sorrows forget one's problems by getting drunk.

– origin ME (orig. northern): rel. to ON drukkna ‘to be drowned’, also to drink.