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drown_out
drown out
English
Verb
drown out (third-person singular simple present drowns out, present participle drowning out, simple past and past participle drowned out)
- (idiomatic) To cover, obscure, or hide by being louder than.
- He uses the music to drown out other noises around him.
- 2014, Daniel Taylor, England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard (in The Guardian, 18 November 2014)
- Charlie Mulgrew could easily have been shown two yellow cards by a stricter referee and amid all the usual Anglo-Scottish pleasantries, the two sets of fans put an awful lot of effort into trying to drown out one another’s national anthems.