Drown \Drown\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drowned; p. pr. & vb. n. Drowning.]

[OE. drunen, drounen, earlier drunknen, druncnien, AS. druncnian to be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken, Drink.]

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

Methought, what pain it was to drown. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Drown \Drown\, v. t.

1. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. ``They drown the land.'' --Dryden.

2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.

3. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.

Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned. --Sir J. Davies.

My private voice is drowned amid the senate. --Addison.

To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.]

--Holland.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)