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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The military said drones were shot down in 11 regions, covering much of the country. —

Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025 Michael Durant is an Army veteran who piloted one of the Black Hawk helicopters that was shot down by the Somali militia, per the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. —

Emily Blackwood, People.com, 13 Feb. 2025 The air force said Russia also launched 123 strike drones into Ukraine, of which 71 were shot down and 40 were lost in flight. —

David Brennan, ABC News, 12 Feb. 2025 The Chinese spy balloon flew from Alaska to the East Coast, where it was shot down by the military over the Atlantic Ocean on Feb. 4, 2023. —

Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for shoot down