drown

verb5

1. •
   to die under water because of not being able to breathe

   • 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. •
   (figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.

   • He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream.
5. •
   (figurative) 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.