Usually means: Submerges in water, cannot breathe.
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  1. drowns: Merriam-Webster
  2. drowns: Collins English Dictionary
  3. drowns: Vocabulary.com
  4. Drowns, drowns: Wordnik
  5. drowns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Drowns, drowns: Wiktionary
  7. drowns: Dictionary.com
  8. drowns: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. drowns: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. drowns: Legal dictionary

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  1. drowns: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  1. drowns: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Drown)

verb:  (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
verb:  (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
verb:  (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
verb:  (transitive, figurative, usually passive voice) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
noun:  A surname.
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