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.

   Hypernym: talk over

   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 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.

Derived terms

• shoutdown (noun)

Translations

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

• Finnish: huutaa kovempaa kuin
• German: niederbrüllen (de)
• Spanish: abuchear a alguien

Anagrams

• shoutdown, Southdown, down south