DROWN

Drown. 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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drown. Drown, v.t. to choke with water, overflow, lose

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Drown (?), v. i. [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.