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shoot down
Synonyms and Antonyms of shoot down
- nowadays the aging activist is routinely shot down in most quarters of the media and dismissed as an irrelevant crank
bad-mouth, belittle, decry, disparage, pooh-pooh (also pooh), put down
chaff, jive, josh, kid, quiz, rally, razz, rib, ride, tease, tweak, twit
bait, barrack [chiefly British], bug, catcall, harass, harry, hassle, heckle, needle, pester, rag, target, taunt, torment
ape, burlesque, caricature, imitate, lampoon, mimic, parody, parrot, pillory, satirize, take off (on), travesty
- every one of my fund-raising ideas was shot down by the other club members
- the results of several studies shoot down the hypothesis that coffee causes heart attacks
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