shout down

English

Verb

shout down (third-person singular simple present shouts down, present participle shouting down, simple past and past participle shouted down)

1. (transitive) To shout louder than (someone) in order to force through one's argument or point of view.
   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 26:

     He had shouted down at least one judge in the Mairie de Luxembourg after a dozen cigars had failed to bring about his ends.

Translations

to shout louder than someone in order to force through one's argument

• Finnish: huutaa kovempaa kuin
• German: niederbrüllen (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: abuchear a alguien

Anagrams

• shoutdown, Southdown, down south