drown

verb

1. 1

   To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

2. 2

   To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.

3. 3

   To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.

4. 4

   To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.

5. 5

   (usually passive) 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.”