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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Already well over 6 feet heading into high school, the Riverside native for years had shot down her mother’s advice to give volleyball a chance.
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Brian Cassella, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2024
In Russia, Kursk’s regional governor said that a Ukrainian missile shot down by Russian air defenses fell on a residential building, wounding 15 people.
—Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2024
Russia has dismissed the supply of F-16s, with Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying last Thursday that Russian forces were prepared to shoot down the F-16 jets.
—Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2024
The overwhelming majority of those drones and missiles were shot down by a combination of Israeli air defense systems and U.S. fighter jets that had been deployed to the region ahead of a possible Iranian retaliation.
—Luis Martinez, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2024
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Brian Cassella, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2024
In Russia, Kursk’s regional governor said that a Ukrainian missile shot down by Russian air defenses fell on a residential building, wounding 15 people.
—Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2024
Russia has dismissed the supply of F-16s, with Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying last Thursday that Russian forces were prepared to shoot down the F-16 jets.
—Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2024
The overwhelming majority of those drones and missiles were shot down by a combination of Israeli air defense systems and U.S. fighter jets that had been deployed to the region ahead of a possible Iranian retaliation.
—Luis Martinez, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2024
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“Shoot down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoot%20down. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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