cry down's Usage Examples:

On 3 March 1574 Regent Morton issued a proclamation to "cry down" or devalue unofficial placks and lions or hardheads (two pence pieces).

Pelagius, with what false pretence Durst thou excuse Man's foul Concupiscence, Or cry down Sin Originall, or that The Love of GOD did Man predestinate.

The first to cry down injustice: Western Jews and Japanese removal during WWII.

it was then the fashion to cry down John Kemble, who took the part after Smith; but, I thought, very unjustly.

They made me fat; they paid me well, To cry down abolition; I slept I died, I woke in Hell— How alter'd my condition.

Hubert responds: "I think so too, but for the present it is the fashion to cry down our native wines and extol the imported.

Synonyms:

downward; downwards; downwardly;

Antonyms:

up; upwardly; upward; upwards;