to drown

to overflow or cover completely with water or another liquid; to flood

Fan Zhongyan (989–1052), Song dynasty scholar and politician, author of On Yueyang Tower ([[岳阳楼记|岳陽樓記|Yue4 yang2 Lou2 Ji4]])

to be flooded

basin irrigation (e.g. for paddy fields)

to stay for a long period

to overwhelm a sound or presence so it cannot be heard or noticed

to be obscured, forgotten, or to vanish into oblivion over time

possessing deep and extensive learning; widely read