Drown
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; — said especially of sound; usually in the form "to drown out" To lose, make hard to find or unnoticeable in an abundant mass
Example sentence: People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Overwhelm
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To engulf, surge-over and submergeTo overpower emotionally
Example sentence: Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer us too many choices, we may not buy anything.