drown: [13] Drown is not found in texts until the end of the 13th century (when it began to replace the related drench in the sense ‘suffocate in water’) but an Old English verb *drūnian could well have existed. The earliest occurrences of the word are from the North of England and Scotland, which suggests a possible borrowing from, or influence of, Old Norse drukna ‘be drowned’; this came ultimately from Germanic *drungk-, a variant of the base which produced English drink. => drench, drink
drown (v.)
c. 1300, transitive and intransitive, perhaps from an unrecorded derivative word of Old English druncnian (Middle English druncnen) "be swallowed up by water" (originally of ships as well as living things), probably from the base of drincan "to drink."
Modern form is from northern England dialect, probably influenced by Old Norse drukna "be drowned." Related: Drowned; drowning.
例文
1. He tried to recollect things and drown himself in them.
彼は過去のことを一生懸命思い出して思い出に浸っている。
2.It is cruel to drown the cat in the river.
猫を川に溺れさせるのは残忍だ。
3.The loud cheers drown out his shouts.
歓声が彼の叫び声を覆った。
4.Don 't drown my whisky.
私のウイスキーにあまり水を入れないでください。
5."No，"returned Minnie softly，and rattling the dishes to drown the conversation.「いいえ、"ミニーはそっと言った。彼女はわざと食器を音にして彼女たちの話し声を隠す."彼は行かない.