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drown out
Idioms and Phrases
Overwhelm with a louder sound, as in Their cries were drowned out by the passing train . [Early 1600s]Example Sentences
AITAROUN, Lebanon — The procession of coffins was heard long before it came into view, a chorus of ambulance sirens drowning out the crowd assembled at the main square of this devastated village.
Price, in all black, made her ring walk first to a huge chorus of boos drowned out by Welsh folk song Yma o Hyd, which blared out of the sound system.
He was immediately drowned out by Republicans shouting "U-S-A!," before House Speaker Mike Johnson ordered his removal from the chamber.
Last rites and alarm bells will not be drowned out by good vibes.
But the talks were irrelevant, drowned out by the violence raging on the streets of the West Bank and Gaza, where the second Palestinian uprising, or "intifada", had erupted the previous September.
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