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What does drown out mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To cover, obscure, or hide by being louder than.
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By her second lap around the interstate beltway the hum of the engine from Jennifer's MG roadster began to drown out her anger and frustration.
The people were inside and the radio was turned up loud to drown out the din of the men yelling and laughing as they drank coffee and beer.
The sound mix tends to favor the score, perhaps a bit too loudly at times, for the music can drown out the dialogue.
You may have to belt a torch song up to that balcony bar to drown out the praises being hosannaed onto chef-owner.
The frogs croaking in the lake were loud enough to drown out the performers.
He seemed to have something to prove, and this occasionally meant his guitar would drown out the vocals or prolong a tune.

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