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Drown
Open directlyEaston's Bible Dictionary · 1897
(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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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. "They drown the land." Dryden.
2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
3. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound. Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned. Sir J. Davies. My private voice is drowned amid the senate. Addison. To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.] Holland.