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shout down

verb

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Overwhelm or silence by yelling or jeering, as in The audience went wild and shouted down the speaker . [c. 1920]

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It reflects a determination to shut or shout down the president any time he dares speak of the court.

This gallery swarmed with people eager for a scene, ready to applaud or shout down the speakers below.

Then the voice of the captain at his post, roaring out his orders, trying to shout down the monster's myriad voices.

Jacob lay sound asleep upon a locker in the cuddy within easy reach of a shout down the companionway or through the skylight.

Lie awake at night and hear the wind blowing; hear it knock at every man's door and shout down every man's chimney.

Nevertheless, the champions of feminine superiority may find it hard work to shout down the glorifiers of masculine achievement.

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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