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What does “out” mean in the sentence “I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out.”? It's from the song This Is Me (The Greatest Showman)
What does “out” mean in the sentence “I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out.”? It's from the song This Is Me (The Greatest Showman)
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“When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown 'em out
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I'm meant to be, this is me”
“When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown 'em out
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I'm meant to be, this is me”
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This is part of a similar group of phrases that mean to make someone or something leave the building/place that they are inside of (physically or metaphorically)
Drown out
Flush out
Smoke out
Gas out
However, drown out is also used to mean to suppress another source of noise (voices, opinions, music, etc.). Basically, one sound that is so loud that it makes the other sound hard or unable to hear.
These two links might have a more simple definition that May help:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drow...
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/...
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