___ out (overwhelm audibly)

Usage examples of drown.

Almost simultaneously with the disappearance of the swarm over New York, all other Africans had flown to water - the sea, lakes, rivers, even reservoirs - and drowned there.

I thought, if he had kept quiet and seen to his borders first, for no sooner had the name of Ahura Mazda rung freely across the Land of Fires than the wave of Akkadian vengeance broke, drowning it in blood.

Ahlberg went first and pretended to leave when Alberta came and then went back and drowned Miss Grady.

Capetus, Tiberinus, who, being drowned in crossing the river Albula, gave it a name famous with posterity.

Amerikan Peace Movement whose theory of justice was that the brutal Amerikan Army should move out of Southeast Asia so that the Cambodians could fertilize their fields with the bodies of Cambodians so that the Vietnamese could prey on the corpse of a decimated nation so that the Chinese could punish the Vietnamese so that the Vietnamese could drown their own Chinese in the sea.

And instead of a mad Amishman drowning women, there was now a mad but grossly deformed Amishman living among the hay bales who was terrified of anyone entering his secret domain.

It was littered with clams, crustaceans, squid, fish, ammonites of all sizes, all of them drowning in the air.

All those women and children excursion beanfeast burned and drowned in New York.

Not the least of his motives for joining Beka in her campaign had been the chance to drown that anger in blood and be done with it.

Aaron Belton poisoned her, drowned her, cut off her skin, and then dumped her naked in the alley behind the restaurant she worked in.

He must have been desperate to haul Boardman back on board, though it was hardly a lifebelt to a drowning man.

Already he hung over the bombsight like a drowning man over a life preserver, wiping his eyes with his sleeves while staring down into the aiming viewer.

Luck and his leaking bullboat kept him afloat until nightfall when he caught up with a drowning antelope.

Sarronnese burkha, the combination of peppers and assorted spices drown out the taste of whatever had been passed off for bear.

Although the stew is nearly as heavily seasoned as Sarronnese burkha, the combination of peppers and assorted spices drown out the taste of whatever had been passed off for bear.