shoot down
verb
shot down; shooting down; shoots down
1
: to cause to fall by shooting
shot down the helicopter
especially
: to kill in this way
was shot down in cold blood
4
: discredit sense 2
shoot down a theory
Examples of shoot down in a Sentence
nowadays the aging activist is routinely shot down in most quarters of the media and dismissed as an irrelevant crank
every one of my fund-raising ideas was shot down by the other club members
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While the Ukrainian Air Force managed to shoot down or disable the vast majority of the drones and missiles, two people were killed and dozens more injured in the attack on Thursday.
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Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 11 July 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the majority of the incoming targets were shot down, including by interceptor drones.
—Ellie Cook
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 July 2025
Ukrainian air defenses shot down 270 targets, including two cruise missiles.
—Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2025
Beating the top charges was not enough to convince Manhattan Federal Judge Arun Subramanian to release Combs under strict conditions on a $1 million bond, a request the jurist shot down hours after the verdict was announced.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 3 July 2025
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Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 11 July 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the majority of the incoming targets were shot down, including by interceptor drones.
—Ellie Cook
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 July 2025
Ukrainian air defenses shot down 270 targets, including two cruise missiles.
—Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2025
Beating the top charges was not enough to convince Manhattan Federal Judge Arun Subramanian to release Combs under strict conditions on a $1 million bond, a request the jurist shot down hours after the verdict was announced.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 3 July 2025
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“Shoot down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoot%20down. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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