drown

/draʊn/ verb

Definition

DIE [I, T] › to die because you are under water and cannot breathe, or to kill someone in this way: Two people drowned in a boating accident yesterday.

COVER [T] (also drown out) › If a loud noise drowns the sound of something else, it prevents that sound from being heard: His voice was drowned out by the traffic.

(Definition of drown verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)