drowned
Lost beneath waves
Drowned is the past tense of drown—to die by submersion in water, unable to breathe: Three swimmers drowned in the flood.
Extended uses describe overwhelming quantities: drowned in debt, drowned out by noise.
A drowned landscape is submerged or waterlogged.
Her voice was drowned by the crowd's roar.
Below the surface
- sunkenDescended beneath water level
- submergedBelow water's surface
- waterloggedSaturated with liquid
- floodedCovered with water
immersed · engulfed · depths · shipwreck · seabed · watery grave · asphyxiated · suffocated
Prevail against difficulty
- overpoweredExcessively dominant or conquered
- swampedOverwhelmed beyond capacity
- inundatedOverwhelmed by quantity
- buriedPlaced beneath earth
besieged · consumed · overloaded · snowed under · bombarded · flooded · deluged · crushed
Rendered unable to speak
- muffledMade quieter, less distinct
- overpoweredExcessively dominant or conquered
- obscuredMade hard to perceive
- maskedHaving face covered
suppressed · stifled · smothered · lost · indistinct · inaudible · eclipsed · overwhelmed
underwater
Below the surface
- sunkenDescended beneath water level
- submergedBelow water's surface
- waterloggedSaturated with liquid
flooded · immersed · engulfed · depths · shipwreck · seabed · watery grave · asphyxiated · suffocated · swamped
overcome
Prevail against difficulty
- overpoweredExcessively dominant or conquered
- swampedOverwhelmed beyond capacity
- inundatedOverwhelmed by quantity
buried · besieged · consumed · overloaded · snowed under · bombarded · flooded · deluged · crushed · suffocated
silenced
Rendered unable to speak
- muffledMade quieter, less distinct
- overpoweredExcessively dominant or conquered
- obscuredMade hard to perceive
masked · suppressed · stifled · smothered · lost · indistinct · inaudible · eclipsed · overwhelmed · deadened
- swept awayoverwhelmed, carried away, overcome, washed away, engulfed
- killedkilled, murdered, slain, assassinated, executed
- Minecraftcreeper, Steve, Alex, zombie, skeleton
- underwaterunderwater, submerged, immersed, sea bed, seabed
- financial ruinbankrupt, bankruptcy, bust, busted, broke
drownedrescued
Freed from danger
saved · survived · revived · resuscitated · undrowned
drownedburned
Damaged by fire
immolated · incinerated · desiccated · parched · electrocuted
- drowned outMade inaudible by noise
- drown outRender inaudible by volume
- drown one's sorrowsConsume alcohol to escape sadness
- drowning outObscuring by being louder
- drowning in workOverwhelmed by professional obligations
- drowning inOverwhelmed by excess