drown

About 1.81 uses per million words.

Meaning

verb To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.
verb 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.
verb 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.
verb To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream.
verb 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.