cry down
to belittle; disparage
to silence by making a greater noise: to cry down opposition
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How to use cry down in a sentence
When all was still, he would become a Valkyrie and cry down the chimney.
Little Erik of Sweden | Madeline BrandeisSanga-moarta tore himself madly from the grasp of his comrades and ran with a wild cry down to the pool.
The Golden Age in Transylvania | Mr JkaiThe wheels were beginning to grind reluctantly when a cry down the track arrested his attention.
The Little Brown Jug at Kildare | Meredith NicholsonO charge not such untruths on God; and invent not falsehoods of his word, while you cry down man's inventions.
A Christian Directory | Baxter RichardIt was about an hour after that we heard a voice cry down to us: "Cheer up, boys, all's well."
Private Peat | Harold R. Peat
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