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 Countries further afield have also been impacted with drones targeting a British airbase in Cyprus this week, while Turkey said NATO air and missile defense systems shot down a missile heading for its airspace on Wednesday. —

Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2026 Qatari fighters shot down two Iranian bombers. —

Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 5 Mar. 2026 On Monday, in the first manned aerial combat of the conflict, Qatari fighter jets shot down two Iranian Su-24 bombers headed toward Al-Udeid Air Base — the US’ largest in the Middle East — and the Ras Laffan liquefied natural gas complex. —

Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 5 Mar. 2026 The Broward County Commission has shot down a proposal that would have cleared the way for a property owner to put up warehouses on and near environmentally sensitive land, some of which has been home to a colony of African vervet monkeys since the late 1940s. —

Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2026 And, crucially, if they are shot down, they are not mourned by the public. —

Justin Salhani, The Dial, 5 Mar. 2026 Iran denied firing a missile toward Turkey a day after Turkey said NATO air defenses shot down an Iranian ballistic missile heading toward its airspace. —

Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2026 Ukraine's air defenses shot down most of the Russian missiles, Zelenskyy said, crediting Western partners for timely delivery of additional air defense interceptors. —

Arkansas Online, 27 Feb. 2026 The Russian Defense Ministry said its air defenses shot down 17 Ukrainian drones overnight over a number of Russian regions, as well as the Black and Azov Seas. —

ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026

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Verb

Soviet satire and humor journals, for example, ridiculed Western imperialism.

— Neringa Klumbytė, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2026
Trump had ridiculed that deal as insufficient and ended it in his first term.

— Brian Bennett, Time, 28 Feb. 2026