Crossword-Solution: DROWN 5 letters, 80 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Drown v. i. To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in
water.
Drown v. t. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
Drown v. t. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
Drown v. t. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said
especially of sound.

We have 80 clues for the answer “DROWN”

Clue Answers
Feel inundated 1 answer
OVERCOME with drink 1 answer
OVERCOME grief in drink 1 answer
Lose one's life in water 1 answer
Immerse (in), as maple syrup 1 answer
Go under for the third time 1 answer
Go down with the ship and stay down 1 answer
Get overwhelmed, so to speak 1 answer
Flood with chocolate syrup, say 1 answer
Flood (an area) 1 answer
OVERPOWER sound 1 answer
Drink away, as sorrows 1 answer
Drench, as with dressing 1 answer
Drench with dressing 1 answer
Be overwhelmed 1 answer
Be louder than, with "out" 1 answer
Be covered with, with "in" 1 answer
Audibly overwhelm (with "out") 1 answer
Audibly overpower, with "out" 1 answer
Suffer Icarus' fate 1 answer
Die like Ophelia 1 answer
die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating 1 answer
___ one's sorrows 1 answer
WATER, suffocate in 1 answer
Totally drench 1 answer
Top with lots of syrup 1 answer
Top with lots of gravy 1 answer
Suffocate in liquid 1 answer
" . . . ___ the stage with tears": Hamlet 1 answer
Succumb to the sea 1 answer
Smother, as with sauce 1 answer
Sink in the drink 1 answer
SUFFOCATE in water 1 answer
Render inaudible, with "out" 1 answer
Put too much dressing on 1 answer
Pour too much syrup on, perhaps 1 answer
Perish in water 1 answer
Overdress 2 answers
Put too much sauce on 2 answers
Go down with the ship 2 answers
Overwhelm with work 4 answers
WET thoroughly 8 answers
Play down? 9 answers
AUDIBLY OVERWHELM, WITH 10 answers
Audibly 12 answers
do for 12 answers
Go under 13 answers
Waterlog 18 answers
Imbrue 19 answers
Whelm 21 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DROWN (5)

What was it? There crowded upon her all the stories she had been told of Marooners’ Rock, so called because evil captains put sailors on it and leave them there to drown.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
How didst thou grieve then, _Adam_, to behold The end of all thy Ofspring, end so sad, Depopulation; thee another Floud, Of tears and sorrow a Floud thee also drown’d, And sunk thee as thy Sons; till gently reard By th’ Angel, on thy feet thou stoodst at last, Though comfortless, as when a Father mourns His Childern, all in view destroyd at once; And scarce to th’ Angel utterdst thus thy plaint.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Out of these say twenty will endeavour to drown the bitterness of despised love in drink: twenty more will mope away their lives without a wish or attempt to make a mark in the world, because they have no ambition apart from their attachment to you: twenty more—the susceptible person myself possibly among them—will be always draggling after you, getting where they may just see you, doing desperate things.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
One day they saw a troop of wild Horses stampeding about, and in quite a panic all the Hares scuttled off to a lake hard by, determined to drown themselves rather than live in such a continual state of fear.
The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992
His only resource on such occasions, either to drown thought or drive away evil spirits, was to sing psalm tunes and the good people of Sleepy Hollow, as they sat by their doors of an evening, were often filled with awe at hearing his nasal melody, “in linked sweetness long drawn out,” floating from the distant hill, or along the dusky road.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992

Quotes with DROWN (3)

If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never ima…
Alice Hoffman Incantation
What are you talking about?" Narcissus demanded. "I am amazing. Everyone knows this.""Amazing at pure suck," Leo said. "If I was as suck as you, I'd drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that.
Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena
Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.
Kristin Cashore Bitterblue
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 54 times in crossword archives (1980–2025).