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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Steam owner Valve shot down reports that it's linked to cloud software company Twilio.
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James Peckham, PC Magazine, 14 May 2025
The Pakistanis shot down several Indian combat aircraft, but defensive measures weren’t seen as adequate by the country’s high command; the Pakistani military launched retaliatory strikes of its own.
—Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2025
The type has been shooting down Russian drones since at least 2023 but only recently made its public debut in official videos.
—David Axe, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Kipper said that when his father’s plane was shot down in Bologna, Italy, he was captured and taken to Germany as a Nazi prisoner of war.
—Natasha Chen, CNN Money, 11 May 2025
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James Peckham, PC Magazine, 14 May 2025
The Pakistanis shot down several Indian combat aircraft, but defensive measures weren’t seen as adequate by the country’s high command; the Pakistani military launched retaliatory strikes of its own.
—Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2025
The type has been shooting down Russian drones since at least 2023 but only recently made its public debut in official videos.
—David Axe, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Kipper said that when his father’s plane was shot down in Bologna, Italy, he was captured and taken to Germany as a Nazi prisoner of war.
—Natasha Chen, CNN Money, 11 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for shoot down
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“Shoot down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoot%20down. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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