Synonyms: drown
Definition: die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
Usage: The child drowned in the lake
Similar words: snuff it, buy the farm, choke, cash in one's chips, pop off, kick the bucket, give-up the ghost, go, pass, pass away, perish, die, decease, conk, drop dead, croak, exit, expire
Definition: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Usage: She died from cancer; The children perished in the fire; The patient went peacefully; The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
Synonyms: drown
Definition: get rid of as if by submerging
Usage: She drowned her trouble in alcohol
Similar words: do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of
Definition: terminate, end, or take out
Usage: Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics; Socialism extinguished these archaic customs; eliminate my debts
Synonyms: drown
Definition: kill by submerging in water
Usage: He drowned the kittens
Similar words: kill
Definition: cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
Usage: This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank; The farmer killed a pig for the holidays
Synonyms: submerge, overwhelm, drown
Definition: cover completely or make imperceptible
Usage: I was drowned in work; The noise drowned out her speech
Definition: be covered with or submerged in a liquid
Usage: the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy
Similar words: be
Definition: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
Usage: John is rich; This is not a good answer