Verb (used with object) : He drowned his sorrows in drink.    From Dictionary.com. 

I mean, people say that drowning is an easy death.    From Wordnik.com.  [A transcript of an interview with Tim Winton on Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Enough Rope hosted by Andrew Denton in which Tim discusses many aspects from his life including how he nearly drowned when he was nine and how he avoided the school bullies by telling taller and taller tales] Reference

The sensation of drowning is pretty clearly the latter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

Death by drowning is a peaceful slumber, a quiet drifting away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference

Simiulated drowning is not drowning, which would be unnacceptable.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is happening to America? Today i heard that our beloved Obama is now letting people from the bush admin.] Reference

The more commonly current medical definition of drowning is as I gave it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition] Reference

Medically, drowning is not being able to breathe because of liquid impairment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition] Reference

The near drowning is getting top-level attention, and is highly politically charged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gondola Capsized: Toddler Neared Death] Reference

Check your facts – the story Broussard tells about the mother drowning is not true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » “One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever”] Reference

It provides suggested questions and possible chants to use in drowning out raucous opponents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberal groups launch town hall counteroffensive] Reference

It simulates drowning, which is physically and mentally like dying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Giraldi: Torture American Style] Reference

A drowning was a drowning: leave it at that, she tried to convince herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bones of the Amazon, Part I of a Novella] Reference

Lemmings: known for periodic mass migrations that sometimes end in drowning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Washington Post reporter Dana Priest teaches Bill Bennett] Reference

Dry drowning occurs when water gets into the lungs and constricts oxygen flow.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Dry' drowning kills 10-year old boy] Reference

Clearly, the harm of drowning is greater than that of having one’s car keyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge] Reference

That's called drowning your sorrows -- or, in psychological jargon, self-medication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wray Herbert: Why Are Some People More Inclined to Self-Medicate?] Reference

His drowning is a product of his own making and offering to help only results in 2 victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jihad Monitor] Reference

This also reminds me of a preemptive "tone" accusation, or what Nezua calls the drowning maestro.    From Wordnik.com.  [In my time of dying] Reference

A lot of "drowning" victims had holes in their heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clock is Ticking for A US Attack on Iran] Reference

S. O'BRIEN: S. technically, or theoretically, you're kind of drowning in extra.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2005] Reference

At one of the "drowning" sites in Michigan, the word "Sinsiniwa" was also scrawled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smiley Face Killers Continue to Confound Investigators] Reference

Like clock work they race into place and practice pulling a "drowning" swimmer back to shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reflections on Security, Democracy and Community] Reference

Tho 'drowning's too good for each blue-stocking hag.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference

Authorities were told the girl was the victim of some kind of drowning incident.    From Wordnik.com.  [KLAS - Top Story News] Reference

The sinking or "drowning" of the northern part of it has made an exceedingly indented coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges] Reference