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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drown \Drown\, verb (used without an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drown \Drown\, verb (used with an object)
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
drown
verb
1: cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech" [syn: {submerge}, {overwhelm}]
2: get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"
3: die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"
4: kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "drown": OD, asphyxiate, baptize, be clobbered, be felled, be killed, be poleaxed, be staggered, be stricken, bottle up, burke, bury, censor, choke, choke off, clamp down on, come to grief, cork, cork up, crack down on, crush, damp down, deluge, dip, douse, drench, duck, dunk, engulf, extinguish, famish, float, flood, flow on, founder, gag, garrote, have a mishap, hold down, immerge, immerse, inundate, jump on, keep down, keep under, kill, knock over, merge, muzzle, overcome, overflow, overpower, overwhelm, plunge in water, pour on, pour water on, prostrate, put down, quash, quell, quench, rain, repress, run aground, shut down on, silence, sink, sit down on, sit on, sluice, smash, smother, soak, sop, souse, squash, squelch, stanch, starve, stifle, stop the breath, strangle, stultify, subdue, submerge, submerse, suffer a misfortune, suffocate, suppress, swamp, throttle, wet, whelm
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Drown (Ex. 15:4; Amos 8:8; Heb. 11:29). Drowning was a mode of capital punishment in use among the Syrians, and was known to the Jews in the time of our Lord. To this he alludes in Matt. 18:6.
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