Meaning of drown out | Babel Free

Definitions

To cover, obscure, or overwhelm by being louder or more intense than.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“He uses the music to drown⟳ out other noises around him.”

“The fire had burned through the night and seemed barely affected by the efforts to drown⟳ it out and almost as if it were simply bored of the festival it had created, the fire lessened at daybreak.”

“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.”

“Stop⟳ using your words as weapons / They're never gonna shoot⟳ me down / Stop⟳, it's time that you learned a lesson / My love⟳ is gonna drown⟳ you out”

“But Harry, in his civilian suit⟳, was also a reminder of the schism between the traditional and the modern in the royal family that can’t be drowned out by pageantry.”

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