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 Russian air defenses shot down 347 Ukrainian drones overnight, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday, in what appeared to be a major attack after Moscow spurned Kyiv’s ceasefire earlier in the week and tension mounted over safety at Russia’s upcoming Victory Day celebrations. —

Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026 But one of the most outlandish theories about the youngest Trump has now been shot down by someone who would know. —

Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 6 May 2026 Vorobyov added that six drones were shot down in the Moscow region, which surrounds but does not include the Russian capital. —

ABC News, 3 May 2026 An American spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. —

USA Today, 1 May 2026 In 1960, the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. —

Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026 Six months ago, an industrial developer had its rezoning request for a mall-sized warehouse campus shot down by the city of South Fulton after fierce community resistance. —

Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 29 Apr. 2026 Crow-Armstrong's homer was a two-run shot down the right-field line in the fourth to give the Cubs a 3-0 lead. —

CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026

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And while that move was ridiculed across baseball at the time, another decision Turner made — far more consequential but no less revolutionary — put his franchise on a trajectory to become one of the most popular in the sport.

— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 6 May 2026
On Thursday, though, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf – who is leading negotiations for Tehran and has emerged as the key voice of the Iranian government – ridiculed the notion of blockading Iran, pointing to the country’s extensive land and maritime borders.

— Nic Robertson, CNN Money, 1 May 2026