drown
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
- Click any word to expand it.
Senses
Sense 1 verb
cover completely or make imperceptible
I was drowned in work
Types & categories
- spread over hypernym
Related & opposite
- drown out also see
Sense 2 verb
get rid of as if by submerging
She drowned her trouble in alcohol
Types & categories
- eliminate hypernym
Sense 3 verb
die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
The child drowned in the lake
Types & categories
- die hypernym
Sense 4 verb
kill by submerging in water
He drowned the kittens
Types & categories
- kill hypernym
Sense 5 verb
be covered with or submerged in a liquid
the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy
Types & categories
- be hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | drown out |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | spread over |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | eliminate |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | die |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | kill |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | be |