SHOT DOWN Synonyms: 137 Similar and Opposite Words

shot down

verb

past tense of shoot down

as in ridiculed

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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as in dismissed

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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as in refuted

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 shot down Kuwait shot down the ballistic missile, the American and Kuwaiti militaries said. —

Kyla Guilfoil, NBC news, 29 May 2026 The state’s Republican lawmakers and officials have repeatedly shot down attempts to broaden the law’s exceptions. —

Kavitha Surana, CNN Money, 28 May 2026 The letter did not mention an override that residents shot down earlier this month – a multi-year property tax increase package that officials said was needed to address a major $3 million structural deficit. —

Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 28 May 2026 For in-demand air defense systems, replacing as many as 290 THAAD, or Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, interceptors that shot down incoming Iranian drones and missiles could take until the end of 2029, CSIS estimates. —

ABC News, 27 May 2026 This was shot down by Council members, however, and Burns moved to support altering the amendment back to a simple majority vote. —

Claire Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026 China held its first joint air force training exercise in Egypt in April-May 2025, which notably included Chinese J-10Cs, the same aircraft in Pakistani service that shot down an Indian Rafale with a PL-15 long-range missile that same May. —

Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026 Air defenses shot down or jammed 693 Russian targets overnight, including 41 missiles and 652 drones of various types nationwide, the air force said. —

Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026 Most of them had been shot down during bombing missions. —

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Verb

When Pete Buttigieg floated a 15-member Supreme Court during his 2020 presidential campaign, for example, he was properly ridiculed by institutionalists.

— Washington Post Editorial Board, Twin Cities, 29 May 2026
In the intervening 26 years, the Jets have been roundly mocked and ridiculed — and, sure, it has often been deserved.

— Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 27 May 2026