drown out
To cover, obscure, or overwhelm by being louder or more intense than.
He uses the music to drown out other noises around him.
drown
/dɹaʊn/
verb 5name 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
all, right, shameful, trying, watched
VERB + DROWN
broke, didn't, floods, let, like, rain, rented, saw
DROWN + NOUN
dog, exhaustion, front, himself, information, journey, myself, sorrow
PREP.
during, from, in, out
ADV.
gladly
Definitions
verb
1
To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.
Old woes, not infant sorrows, bear them mild / Continuance tames the one; the other wild, / Like an unpractised swimmer plunging still, / With too much labour drowns for want of skill.
2
To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping.
The pretty-vaulting sea refused to drown me, / Knowing that thou wouldst have me drown’d on shore, / With tears as salt as sea, through thy unkindness:
3
To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom.
Penny Guy: Bloody hell, Rog, whadda you want? / Roger O'Neill: To drown in your arms and hide in yer eyes, darlin'.
4
To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream.
Though most men being in sensuall pleasures drownd, / It seemes their Soules but in the Senses are.
5
To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather.
name
1
A surname.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
drown the miller
To put too much water in something; overdilute.
[…] I tell my Bowl Friends, that our ministers have spoilt the punch. Sometimes they give us too much spirit, as when they display a vigour beyond the law; and sometimes, as we say
Example Bank
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When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.
Wiktionary02
Old woes, not infant sorrows, bear them mild / Continuance tames the one; the other wild, / Like an unpractised swimmer plunging still, / With too much labour drowns for want of skill.
Wiktionary03
The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping.
Wiktionary04
I might as well drown as starve.
Tatoeba · #2007705
Let the rain drown out your sorrow.
Tatoeba · #53194906
I have to wear earplugs to drown out all the noise from the construction site next door.
Tatoeba · #608963Usage Notes
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In some senses, drown is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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