cry down
Britishverb
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to belittle; disparage
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to silence by making a greater noise
to cry down opposition
Example Sentences
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You ought, if possible, to get before the dog when you cry "down."
From The Dog by Dinks
You Virginians are all right; you have your Washington and Morgan and the Rangers, but don’t cry down the Northern farmers in their homespun.
From Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield by John Goss
It seems he will cry down not only the jus divinum of church censures with the Erastians, but the jus divinum of the Sabbath with the Canterburians.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
Ages of controversy have failed to obliterate or cry down the spontaneous utterance of the soul, "I have within myself the ultimate standard of truth."
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
Artists cry down our costume; forgetting that if they have not folds of drapery to paint, that is because they have in each man every limb to which they may assign its posture.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
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