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drowns
 
Verb drown has 4 senses
  1. submerge, drown, overwhelm - cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"
    --1 is one way to cover, spread over
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. drown - get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"
    --2 is one way to     eliminate, get rid of, do away with
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s something PP
  3. drown - die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"
    --3 is one way to     die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  4. drown - kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens"
    --4 is one way to     kill
    Sample sentence:
    They want to drown the prisoners
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