1
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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2
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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3
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
Later in the day, however, the U.S. did begin to military shift assets and assist with shooting down incoming ballistic missiles.
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Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 14 June 2025
The United States is assisting Israel in shooting down missiles coming from Iran as the two countries trade strikes in an escalating conflict.
—Annabella Rosciglione, The Washington Examiner, 13 June 2025
Jordanian jets scrambled to shoot down some of the projectiles flying through the country’s airspace, after assessments said the missiles were likely to fall on Jordanian territory, the Jordanian military said.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
The officials said the IDF is working to shoot down the drones, which will to take several hours to reach Israel.
—Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
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Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 14 June 2025
The United States is assisting Israel in shooting down missiles coming from Iran as the two countries trade strikes in an escalating conflict.
—Annabella Rosciglione, The Washington Examiner, 13 June 2025
Jordanian jets scrambled to shoot down some of the projectiles flying through the country’s airspace, after assessments said the missiles were likely to fall on Jordanian territory, the Jordanian military said.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
The officials said the IDF is working to shoot down the drones, which will to take several hours to reach Israel.
—Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoot down
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has ridiculed Red Bull's protest, which challenged George Russell's maiden victory of the 2025 season in Canada.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 June 2025
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San Francisco has been consistently ridiculed for its rise in homeless population and videos of open-air drug use on the city’s streets.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
17 June 2025
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Kiser's attorneys also filed a notice to dismiss some agencies from the lawsuit, and the court sealed a declaration Kiser wrote about this case.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
18 June 2025
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Last month, Fernando Casas-Gamboa’s attorney filed a motion to dismiss the indictment, alleging that ICE is wrongly detaining his client on immigration grounds despite Major ordering his pre-trial release in the criminal case.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 June 2025
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But Burton, the stepfather, refuted claims that Williams was violent toward his family.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
15 June 2025
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Reports on the ground refuted those characterizations.—
Jeremy Pressman,
The Conversation,
15 June 2025
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Tonally, the show is all over the place, laying on the moody theatrics one moment, mocking Dave’s writerly pretenses the next.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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In September 2024, she was mocked online after releasing a single.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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An Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London has been canceled days after the fatal crash that killed 241 people on board.—
Barney Henderson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 June 2025
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In the moments after the chase, Rivera was shot and killed by her own partner, authorities have said.—
Sam Charles,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2025
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Trump vetoed an Israeli plan to kill Iran’s supreme leader, according to news reports.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2025
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This request may be barking at the moon, but DeSantis should veto SB 268, a huge, unjustified public records exemption that would allow most public officials to keep secret their home addresses and personal telephone numbers.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 June 2025
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The Trump administration has tested the limits of this system by refusing to spend money that Congress had previously allocated.—
Camila Domonoske,
NPR,
25 June 2025
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Pallone added Kennedy has refused to take public input about vaccines, including his decision to overhaul a vaccine advisory panel, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA Today,
25 June 2025
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Confusion reigned, and so on Friday, the stock went from positive to negative to deeply negative in a matter of hours.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
2 Feb. 2025
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Travelers also need to negative COVID-19 test within one day of flying to return to the United States.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
7 Feb. 2022
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“Shoot down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoot%20down. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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