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
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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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Tesla investors are lobbying to shoot down the largest moonshot compensation plan in history.
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Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 21 May 2024
Some species hang around through the night, while others shoot down the canyon and across the eastern flats onto New Mexico fields to gorge on farm pests.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
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Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 21 May 2024
Some species hang around through the night, while others shoot down the canyon and across the eastern flats onto New Mexico fields to gorge on farm pests.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
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“Shoot down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoot%20down. Accessed 3 Jun. 2024.
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