"Drown" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 淹没 | yān mò | to submerge / to drown / to flood / to drown out (also fig.) |   |
| 淹死 | yān sǐ | to drown | |
| 溺水 | nì shuǐ | to drown | |
| 溺死 | nì sǐ | to drown | |
| 灭 |  miè | to extinguish or put out / to go out (of a fire etc) / to exterminate or wipe out / to drown | |
| 淹 | yān | to flood / to submerge / to drown / to irritate the skin (of liquids) / to delay | |
| 溺 | nì | to drown / to indulge / addicted to / to spoil (a child) | |
| 使溺死 | shǐ nì sǐ | drown | |
| 沦没 | lún mò | to sink / to drown | |
| 遇溺 | yù nì | to drown | |
| 溺亡 | nì wáng | to drown | |
| 闷酒 | mèn jiǔ | alcohol drunk to drown one's sorrows | |
| 借酒浇愁 | jiè jiǔ jiāo chóu | to drown one's sorrows (in alcohol) | |
| 葬身鱼腹 | zàng shēn yú fù | lit. to be buried in the bellies of fish (idiom) / fig. to drown | |
| 浸猪笼 | jìn zhū lóng | to drown sb in a wicker basket, a form of 沉潭[chen2 tan2] | |
| 淹蓋 | yān gài | to submerge / to flood / to drown out | |
| 自溺 | zì nì | to drown oneself | |
| 跳井 | tiào jǐng | to jump into a well (to drown oneself, esp. of ladies in fiction) | |
| 溺婴 | nì yīng | to drown a newborn baby (as method of infanticide) | |
| 跳河 | tiào hé | to drown oneself by jumping into the river | |
| 淹盖 | yān gài | to submerge / to flood / to drown out | |
| 自沉 | zì chén | to scuttle (a ship) / to drown oneself | |
