[{"word":"drowns","phonetic":"/dɹaʊnz/","phonetics":[{"text":"/dɹaʊnz/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather."}],"synonyms":["flood","inundate"],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drown","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drowns"]}]