shout down

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   silence or overwhelm by shouting

   Broaderhush

Questions about shout down

What does shout down mean?

shout down means "silence or overwhelm by shouting".

Is shout down a common word?

shout down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.