shoot down

verb

shot down; shooting down; shoots down

Synonyms of shoot down next

transitive verb

: to cause to fall by shooting

shot down the helicopter

especially : to kill in this way

was shot down in cold blood

: to put an end to : defeat, reject

shoot down legislation

: deflate, ridicule

: discredit sense 2

shoot down a theory

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. —

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 See all Example Sentences for shoot down