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Definition of Shout down
1. Verb. Silence or overwhelm by shouting.
Definition of Shout down
1. Verb. (transitive) To shout louder than (someone) in order to force through one's argument or point of view. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shout Down
Literary usage of Shout down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Irish People by William Anderson O'Connor (1887)
"If one man may be shouted down by noise and uproar, one man has a perfect right
to shout down the whole House in return, if he is able to do it, ..."
2. History of a Crime. (Deposition of a Witness) [by] Victor Hugo; Tr. from the by Victor Hugo, Huntington Smith (1888)
""shout 'Down with Soulouque!" The sergeant hesitated a moment, then said, " No. ..."
3. Memoirs of marshal Bugeaud, from his private correspondence and original by Henri Amédée Lelorgne Ideville, Thomas Robert Bugeaud de la Piconnerie (1884)
"You shout " Down with the conqueror of Abdel-Kader ! Down with the man who can
li-ad us to victory over the Germans and Russians." Before a month is out, ..."
4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1906)
"... a " ruction" of this kind that the upper-class men jumped upon their chairs
in crowds to shout down the rioters. Presently they could see that the ..."
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