157 Drown one’s sorrows
(PW) drink liquor to forget one’s problems
I was so upset last night, that I drowned my sorrows at the bar.
(free) To deaden one's awareness of; blot out:
people who drowned their troubles in drink.
(dictionary) Drink liquor to escape one's unhappiness.
For example, After the divorce, she took to drowning her sorrows at the local bar. The notion of drowning in drink dates from the late 1300s.
(wiki)
to drink heavily to commiserate oneself
(your) to die by suffocation in water or other liquid
transitive verb
to kill by suffocation in water or other liquid
to cover with water; flood; inundate
to overwhelm
to be so loud as to overcome (another sound): usually with out
to cause to disappear; get rid of to drown one's worries in drink
