Synonyms of shot down

shot down

verb

past tense of shoot down

1

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ridiculed
• mocked
• laughed (at)
• poked fun at
• made fun of
• made sport of
• teased
• derided
• taunted
• scouted
• jeered
• ragged on
• gibed
• parodied
• cocked snooks (at)
• skewered
• cocked a snook (at)
• sneered (at)
• tormented
• scoffed (at)
• imitated
• put down
• harassed
• targeted
• scorned
• disparaged
• belittled
• ragged
• ribbed
• decried
• took off (on)
• quizzed
• rode
• rallied
• baited
• twitted
• razzed
• pestered
• mimicked
• caricatured
• tweaked
• bugged
• satirized
• chaffed
• kidded
• parroted
• harried
• heckled
• pooh-poohed
• pilloried
• lampooned
• bad-mouthed
• travestied
• needled
• burlesqued
• joshed
• hassled
• aped
• jived
• catcalled
• barracked

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• approved
• endorsed
• sanctioned
• commended
• applauded

2

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dismissed
• killed
• refused
• vetoed
• downed
• negatived
• blackballed
• declined
• disallowed
• disapproved
• nixed
• blacklisted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• confirmed
• approved
• passed
• allowed
• admitted
• ratified
• assented (to)
• elected
• supported
• sanctioned

3

as in refuted

to prove to be false

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• refuted
• overturned
• challenged
• disproved
• discredited
• rebutted
• discussed
• falsified
• confounded
• confuted
• belied
• debunked
• questioned
• talked over
• contested
• disconfirmed
• gave the lie to
• doubted
• overthrew
• debated
• hashed (over)
• mistrusted
• queried
• mooted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• established
• proved
• confirmed
• recorded
• verified
• showed
• validated
• documented
• supported
• backed (up)
• evidenced
• witnessed
• identified
• certified
• illustrated
• demonstrated
• displayed
• evinced
• attested
• manifested
• corroborated
• substantiated
• adduced
• buttressed
• authenticated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of shot down

This month, a Spanish F-18 shot down a fourth Russian drone near the Moldovan border. — David Brennan, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2026

There will soon be a lot of these spread around and shot down by Take-Two as has happened with every GTA 6 leak so far. — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

The Russian Defense Ministry said air defenses shot down 726 drones overnight over a number of Russian regions, annexed Crimea and the Black and Azov seas, in one of Ukraine’s biggest aerial attacks of the war. — Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Also unclear is the status of characters played by Gibson, Bridges, Kang, and Emmanuel, all of whom were in a plane that was shot down in the sequel, leaving their fates unknown. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Aug. 2026

Payton shot down a report of a position change early in camp, but there was Barron in the first half Friday night looking like a safety on one particular snap as the Broncos blitzed in zero coverage. — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2026

But on May 1, 1960, just four years after the U-2’s debut, the Soviet miliary shot down one of the planes, flown by Francis Gary Powers, proving that the US underestimated Soviet capabilities. — Emma Balleste, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026

The chopper gets shot down, and Wolverine must fight his way back to reunite with Sabretooth and Mystique, his Team X comrades. — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026

In June, two NATO fighter jets shot down a drone that entered the Latvia's airspace, while the two other Baltic states, Estonia and Lithuania, which all share a border with Russia, reported drones crashing in their territory. — CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026