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shoots down
Synonyms and Antonyms of shoots down
- nowadays the aging activist is routinely shot down in most quarters of the media and dismissed as an irrelevant crank
scoffs (at), scorns, sneers (at)
bad-mouths, belittles, decries, disparages, pooh-poohs (also poohs), puts down
chaffs, jives, joshes, kids, quizzes, rallies, razzes, ribs, rides, teases, tweaks, twits
baits, barracks [chiefly British], bugs, catcalls, harasses, harries, hassles, heckles, needles, pesters, rags, targets, taunts, torments
apes, burlesques, caricatures, imitates, lampoons, mimics, parodies, parrots, pillories, satirizes, takes off (on), travesties
- 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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