Usually means: Submersion in water causing death.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. drown: Merriam-Webster
  2. drown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drown: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. drown: Collins English Dictionary
  5. drown: Vocabulary.com
  6. Drown, drown: Wordnik
  7. drown: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Drown, drown: Wiktionary
  9. drown: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. drown: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. drown: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Drown, drown: Dictionary.com
  13. drown: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. drown: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DROWN, Drown (Bring Me the Horizon song), Drown (The Smashing Pumpkins song), Drown (Theory of a Deadman song), Drown (short story collection), Drown (surname), Drown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Drown: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. drown: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. drown: Rhymezone
  19. drown: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. drown: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. drown: FreeDictionary.org
  22. drown: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. drown: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. drown: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. drown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. drown: Legal dictionary

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  1. drown: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. drown: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. drown: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drown: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drown: Easton Bible

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drown: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See drowned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
verb:  (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
verb:  (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
verb:  (transitive, figurative, usually passive voice) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
noun:  A surname.

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