often the offspring of a mortal and a god n (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her n a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments)
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while escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned
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(Greek mythology) a youth beloved of Hero who drowned in a storm in the Hellespont on one of his nightly visits to see her
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v fall or descend to a lower place or level v cause to sink v pass into a specified state or condition v go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" v descend into or as if into some soft substance or place v appear to move downward v fall heavily or suddenly
