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drown has 3 distinct synonyms spread across 2 of its 6 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
get rid of as if by submerging
“She drowned her trouble in alcohol”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for drown come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
“The child drowned in the lake”
kill by submerging in water
“He drowned the kittens”
be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation
“the divers saved the drowning child”