to drown up

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. "They drown the land." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

2.To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid. [1913 Webster]

3.To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound. [1913 Webster]

Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned.— Sir J. Davies.[1913 Webster]

My private voice is drowned amid the senate.— Addison.[1913 Webster]

To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.] --Holland. [1913 Webster]