verb
To cover with liquid
swamp, inundate, overflow; see flood.
To lower into a liquid
dip, plunge, submerge; see immerse 1, sink 2.
To kill or die by drowning
sink, suffocate, asphyxiate, go under; see die 1, kill 1.
See drown in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
To flow over completely:
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