Drown

Verb

1. To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

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

2. To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.

   "The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping."

3. To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.

   "We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom."

4. To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.

   "He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream."

5. 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."