SHOOT DOWN Synonyms: 136 Similar and Opposite Words

shoot down

verb

as in to ridicule

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 to dismiss

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 to refute

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

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Recent Examples of shoot down The rescue brought to an end an episode that had begun on Friday, when a US air force F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down over southwestern Iran – the first time a US fighter jet had been downed by hostile fire since the 2003 Gulf War. —

The Week Uk, TheWeek, 11 Apr. 2026 On Friday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian military personnel have shot down Iranian Shahed drones in multiple Middle Eastern countries. —

Jason Ma, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026 Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, a key maritime channel between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and maintained its ability to shoot down warplanes and attack its neighbors, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. —

Donald Heflin, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2026 About two weeks later, the US military used a laser system to shoot down an unmanned aircraft operated by US Customs and Border Protection about 50 miles south of El Paso. —

Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for shoot down

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North Korea also conducted a series of tests last week that state media said involved various new weapons systems, including ballistic missiles armed with cluster-bomb warheads, while its senior officials issued statements ridiculing South Korean hopes for warmer relations.

— Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2026
North Korea conducted a series of tests last week that state media said involved various new weapons systems, including ballistic missiles armed with cluster-bomb warheads, while its senior officials issued crude statements ridiculing South Korean hopes for warmer relations.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026