shout down

phrasal verb

shouted down; shouting down; shouts down

: to shout so that (someone who is speaking) cannot be heard

The crowd shouted him down when he tried to give his speech.

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Nathan Hunsaker, along with his brother, tried to shout down Hendrix. —

Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 23 July 2024 Rockefeller was not the only Republican to get shouted down. —

Charles J. Holden / Made By History, TIME, 17 July 2024 Recent City Council proceedings in Colorado’s third-largest city have been shouted down and repeatedly disrupted as protesters have demanded justice for Lewis’ death. —

John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 15 July 2024 Still, some Republicans wanted a disruptor with a milder temperament on stage, worrying that attempts to shout down Biden would rub voters the wrong way. —

Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 25 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for shout down