drown

verb

He tried to drown his sorrows in alcohol.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.

意味（2）

(transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.

意味（3）

We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom.

意味（4）

(transitive, figuratively) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.

He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream.

意味（5）

(transitive, figuratively, usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.

The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather.