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 His uncle had been a pilot who was shot down over Hungary and was a prisoner of war until the war ended. —

Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026 Moscow Mayor Sobyanin releases realtime statements when Ukrainian drones are reported shot down while heading toward the capital. —

David Brennan, ABC News, 4 June 2026 While a bond to fund city hall construction was not put to a vote, other bond propositions were, and they were summarily shot down. —

Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 June 2026 Katie Stewart provided all of the squad’s offense with a lone clutch swing, her three-run shot down the left-field line in the bottom of the sixth. —

Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 3 June 2026 Altogether, Russia fired 656 drones and 73 missiles at Ukraine overnight, according to Ukrainian Air Force figures, which said the vast bulk of the drones and just over half of the missiles were shot down. —

Helen Regan, CNN Money, 2 June 2026 Air force units shot down or neutralised 40 missiles and 602 drones, but the air force did not list the Zircons among those that were intercepted. —

Valentyn Ogirenko, USA Today, 2 June 2026 Kuwait shot down the ballistic missile, the American and Kuwaiti militaries said. —

Kyla Guilfoil, NBC news, 29 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

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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