laugh down

laugh someone or something down

to cause someone to quit or cause something to end by laughing in ridicule. Her singing career was destroyed when the audience laughed her down as an amateur. The cruel audience laughed down the amateur singer. They laughed down the magic act also.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Priyanka	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali
Samanta	-	Italian, Spanish
Umberto	oom-BER-to	Italian
Basia (2)	-	Hebrew
Borislav	bah-ree-SLAHF (Russian)	Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Russian, Medieval Slavic
Hewitt	['hju:it]