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shout down
verb
- tr, adverb to drown, overwhelm, or silence by shouting or talking loudly
Idioms and Phrases
Overwhelm or silence by yelling or jeering, as in The audience went wild and shouted down the speaker . [c. 1920]Example Sentences
Last month’s contentious town hall in Yucca Valley was among several events across the U.S. in which GOP lawmakers were shouted down while touting the Trump administration’s first month in office.
There were bitter exchanges across the chamber on a number of occasions before Murphy said proceedings would resume on Thursday morning as she was shouted down by opposition TDs.
He shouted down to her that he wasn’t leaving and that people were on their way to help her.
Jack shouted down as the main beanstalk connected with the cliff.
A similarly large crowd aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement shouted down an attempt by Londregan’s defense team to hold a news conference afterward.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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