SHOT DOWN Synonyms: 137 Similar and Opposite Words

shot down

verb

past tense of shoot down

as in ridiculed

to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter nowadays the aging activist is routinely shot down in most quarters of the media and dismissed as an irrelevant crank

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as in dismissed

to reject by or as if by a vote every one of my fund-raising ideas was shot down by the other club members

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as in refuted

to prove to be false the results of several studies shoot down the hypothesis that coffee causes heart attacks

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Only two years ago, Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer, was ridiculed for suggesting that a Google AI model was sentient.

Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2024
On Thursday, Kim's sister and senior official, Kim Yo Jong, also ridiculed South Korea's showcasing of the Hyunmoo-5 missile, saying there there's no way for South Korea to counter the North Korea's nuclear forces with conventional weapons.

HYUNG-JIN KIM AND KIM TONG-HYUNG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 5 Oct. 2024

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