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shoot down

verb
shot down; shooting down; shoots down

Definition of shoot down

transitive verb

1 : to cause to fall by shooting shot down the helicopter especially : to kill in this way was shot down in cold blood
2 : to put an end to : defeat, reject shoot down legislation
3 : deflate, ridicule
4 : discredit sense 2 shoot down a theory
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Synonyms for shoot down

Synonyms

deride, gibe (or jibe), jeer, laugh (at), mock, ridicule, scout, skewer

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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

First Known Use of shoot down

1657, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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