SHOOT DOWN Synonyms: 136 Similar and Opposite Words

shoot down

verb

as in to ridicule

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 to dismiss

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 to refute

to prove to be false the results of several studies shoot down the hypothesis that coffee causes heart attacks

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Examples of shoot down in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The Navy’s ability to build lower-cost warships that can shoot down Houthi rebel missiles in the Red Sea depends in part on a 25-year-old laborer who previously made parts for garbage trucks. —

Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2024 The Navy's ability to build lower-cost warships that can shoot down Houthi rebel missiles in the Red Sea depends in part on a 25-year-old laborer who previously made parts for garbage trucks. —

CBS News, 11 Aug. 2024 Kyiv’s air defenses managed to shoot down all of the Russian drones which began approaching the city at around 3am local time (8pET), Popko said, with none of the drones managing to reach their targets. —

Niamh Kennedy and Maria Kostenko, CNN, 7 Sep. 2024 In 1960, pilot Gary Powers, while spying at more than 70,000 feet above the former Soviet Union, was shot down by a Soviet surface-to-air missile. —

Jim Clash, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for shoot down

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