shoot down
verb
shot down; shooting down; shoots down
1
: to cause to fall by shooting
shot down the helicopter
especially
: to kill in this way
was shot down in cold blood
4
: discredit sense 2
shoot down a theory
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Examples of shoot down in a Sentence
nowadays the aging activist is routinely shot down in most quarters of the media and dismissed as an irrelevant crank
every one of my fund-raising ideas was shot down by the other club members
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Rock’s talent includes shooting down German plans with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.
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Justin Kroll, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2024
Voters were shooting down a proposal for the county to elect a charter commission to generally revise the county's home rule charter and frame and submit to the voters a revised charter, according to unofficial results.
—Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2024
Drone fleets are impractical if not impossible to shoot down with conventional projectiles.
—Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
On Election Day, Kentucky voters shot down Amendment 2, passed Amendment 1 and helped send Donald Trump back to the White House.
—Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 7 Nov. 2024
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Justin Kroll, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2024
Voters were shooting down a proposal for the county to elect a charter commission to generally revise the county's home rule charter and frame and submit to the voters a revised charter, according to unofficial results.
—Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2024
Drone fleets are impractical if not impossible to shoot down with conventional projectiles.
—Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
On Election Day, Kentucky voters shot down Amendment 2, passed Amendment 1 and helped send Donald Trump back to the White House.
—Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 7 Nov. 2024
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“Shoot down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoot%20down. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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