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shoots down

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present tense third-person singular of shoot down

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1 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 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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blacklists

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elects,
supports

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confirms,
ratifies

3 to prove to be false

the results of several studies shoot down the hypothesis that coffee causes heart attacks

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doubts,
mistrusts

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gives the lie to

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shoots the breeze

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