shout sb down
— phrasal verb with shout uk/ʃaʊt/us/ʃaʊt/verb
to prevent someone who is speaking at a meeting from being heard, by shouting:
She was shouted down when she tried to speak on the issue of abortion.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Shouting & screaming
- barracking
- bawl
- be in full cry idiom
- bellow
- burst
- burst out
- call (sth) out
- cry out
- howl
- hurl
- roar
- scream your head off idiom
- scream/shout blue murder idiom
- screech
- shout
- shouting
- shriek
- squawk
- squee
- thunder
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