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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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3
to prove to be false
- the results of several studies shoot down the hypothesis that coffee causes heart attacks
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