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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The number of students who report that shouting down a speaker to stop a campus speech, blocking other students from attending a campus speech, and using violence to stop a campus speech is acceptable in some form has risen incrementally since 2022. —

Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024 Make an effort to not shout down the hall to Hunter because my voice isn’t warmed up yet. —

Jurnee Smollett, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2024 During that speech, Biesenbach was briefly shouted down by pro-Palestine demonstrators. —

Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 6 Dec. 2024 The tactics can get extreme: attacking speakers on social media; running people from their jobs; denying tenure to professors; shouting down speakers with the wrong views; threatening administrators with the wrong rules; boycotting companies affiliated with the wrong people. —

William Cooper, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for shout down