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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

shout down en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To shout louder than (someone) in order to force through one's argument or point of view.
    • He had shouted down at least one judge in the Mairie de Luxembourg after a dozen cigars had failed to bring about his ends. 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 26:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
shouting down Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
shouts down Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
shouted down Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
shouted down Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

shoutdown

Hypernyms

talk over

Translations (6)

de niederbrüllen (to shout louder than someone in order to force through one's argument) · fi huutaa kovempaa kuin (to shout louder than someone in order to force through one's argument) · pl zakrzyczeć (to shout louder than someone in order to force through one's argument) · pl zakrzykiwać (to shout louder than someone in order to force through one's argument) · es abuchear a alguien (to shout louder than someone in order to force through one's argument) · pt falar por cima de alguém (to shout louder than someone in order to force through one's argument)