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
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 firm successfully demonstrated shooting down several small drones from the ground.
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Dec. 2025
In August, city council shot down a measure for redevelopment, essentially killing his proposal to redevelop the site with a seven and a half story hotel and other amenities.
—Joe Brandt, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
Black Hawk Down costarred Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett, Eric Bana, Tom Sizemore, Jason Isaacs, Tom Hardy, Orlando Bloom and more as a crew of American soldiers whose helicopter is shot down during a pivotal battle in the Somali civil war in 1993.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
Since forming in early September, the deployment has been used primarily to shoot down fast boats suspected of trafficking drugs.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 Dec. 2025
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Dec. 2025
In August, city council shot down a measure for redevelopment, essentially killing his proposal to redevelop the site with a seven and a half story hotel and other amenities.
—Joe Brandt, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
Black Hawk Down costarred Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett, Eric Bana, Tom Sizemore, Jason Isaacs, Tom Hardy, Orlando Bloom and more as a crew of American soldiers whose helicopter is shot down during a pivotal battle in the Somali civil war in 1993.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
Since forming in early September, the deployment has been used primarily to shoot down fast boats suspected of trafficking drugs.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 Dec. 2025
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“Shoot down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoot%20down. Accessed 5 Dec. 2025.
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