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howl down

verb

  1. tr, adverb to prevent (a speaker) from being heard by shouting disapprovingly


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And he'd howl down the ro'd in a big cloud of dust, For he made it his brag he was allus there fust.

Winter is upon us; the biting winds rattle our window-shutters and howl down our chimneys.

His fingers slipped, and with a last howl down he dropped, eight or ten feet, upon a bed of dry manure.

They were paid by the popular favourite to howl down any likely rival.

Did you ever sing or howl down a rain barrel or into a long pipe or hallway and hear the sound?

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