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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The 42-year-old former political advisor, who calls Indian Creek Village home, shot down that theory down after Trump announced another run for the White House back in 2022.
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Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 31 May 2024
Ukrainian officials have said the jets could allow Ukraine to shoot down the warplanes that Russia uses to launch powerful glide bombs from inside Russia.
—Constant Méheut, New York Times, 28 May 2024
In early April 1944, as a gunnery officer aboard the USS Yorktown in the Pacific, Lt. Cmdr. Earnshaw and his crew shot down three attacking Japanese aircraft off the island formerly known as Truk.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2024
Tesla investors are lobbying to shoot down the largest moonshot compensation plan in history.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 21 May 2024
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Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 31 May 2024
Ukrainian officials have said the jets could allow Ukraine to shoot down the warplanes that Russia uses to launch powerful glide bombs from inside Russia.
—Constant Méheut, New York Times, 28 May 2024
In early April 1944, as a gunnery officer aboard the USS Yorktown in the Pacific, Lt. Cmdr. Earnshaw and his crew shot down three attacking Japanese aircraft off the island formerly known as Truk.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2024
Tesla investors are lobbying to shoot down the largest moonshot compensation plan in history.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 21 May 2024
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“Shoot down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoot%20down. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
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