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

Federal courts, including the Supreme Court, shot down all of those efforts. — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026

The air force said that 135 drones, of which 70 were jet-powered, were shot down or otherwise suppressed. — David Brennan, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2026

Russia launched 164 drones across Ukraine overnight into Sunday, 137 of which were shot down, the Ukrainian Air Force said that morning. — Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2026

In May 2025, a MAGURA V7 armed with air-to-air missiles shot down a Russian Su-30 fighter jet over the Black Sea, according to Ukrainian military intelligence. — David Averre, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Nov. 2026

The Air Force's older MQ-1 Predators have largely been retired, but if Iran has in fact shot down 10 of the aircraft, the loss would still equate to roughly $40 million. — CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026

One of them shot down two ⁠of the latest generation of Russian drones over Romanian territorial waters in late October. — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2026

Marvell's Murphy also shot down concerns about Nvidia's circular dealmaking, given the leading AI chipmaker's recent multibillion-dollar investments in both companies. — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 2 Nov. 2026

At the heart of Cayanan’s Miracle Fever is Nieva, a fourteen-year-old of unspecified gender, whose miracles of Mary are shot down by a church investigation in her small town in the Philippines. — Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2026