0 past simple and past participle of howl
2 If the wind howls, it blows hard and makes a lot of noise:
He has the time: he will not be howled down by eager hecklers.
His remark was that a man who was howled down from two diametrically opposite points of view twice in the same week must be right.
That suggestion was howled down by the majority of the students.
It howled with pain and rage at the loss of its fee income, and asked politicians to keep out of the process.
I was rather howled down for saying it.
He got no further because he was howled down.
Yet the same hunch of "lefties" howled for his head.
The dogs howled at all hours of the day and night.
