To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution.
To preserve food in a salt solution.
The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.
Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.
To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.