1. (v. i.) To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

2. (v. t.) To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.

3. (v. t.) To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.

4. (v. t.) To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.

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