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drown out
Idioms and Phrases
Overwhelm with a louder sound, as in Their cries were drowned out by the passing train . [Early 1600s]Example Sentences
Hymns played out on giant speakers, occasionally drowned out by the sound of helicopters flying overhead, as drones and seagulls crisscrossed over Michelangelo's dome.
But that caveat is drowned out by the hyperbolic and highly gendered language that frames empathy as emasculating.
The nepo baby whose arrival last summer was ripped across the NBA landscape has quietly risen above the criticism and gradually drowned out the noise.
AITAROUN, Lebanon — The procession of coffins was heard long before it came into view, a chorus of ambulance sirens drowning out the crowd assembled at the main square of this devastated village.
Price, in all black, made her ring walk first to a huge chorus of boos drowned out by Welsh folk song Yma o Hyd, which blared out of the sound system.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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