| Front | drown out |
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| Back | drown out drown out sth • drown sth out if one noise drowns out another noise, it stops that noise from being heard: ▪ John started to speak, but his voice was drowned out by the traffic. ▪ The couple next door started arguing again, and I turned up my stereo to drown out the noise. |
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