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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The video of Santa Claus being shot down by a Russian air-defense missile was released just two days after an Azerbaijan Airlines' Embraer jet crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day, killing at least 38 of the 67 people on board.
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Peter Suciu, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Moscow claimed the aircraft was shot down by a Ukrainian rocket in Belgorod.
—Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
More:The more the merrier: Trump invites Ukraine's Zelenskyy to attend his inauguration
GPS jamming
Some were reportedly shot down in closed air space over regions bordering Ukraine, including the Sea of Azov.
—Nailia Bagirova, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
Two Ukrainian missiles were shot down in the Kursk region with no damage or casualties, according to a post on the Kursk region Telegram channel, after it was announced that the five Russian airports had been shut down.
—Lena Medvedeva, NBC News, 26 Dec. 2024
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Peter Suciu, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Moscow claimed the aircraft was shot down by a Ukrainian rocket in Belgorod.
—Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
More:The more the merrier: Trump invites Ukraine's Zelenskyy to attend his inauguration
GPS jamming
Some were reportedly shot down in closed air space over regions bordering Ukraine, including the Sea of Azov.
—Nailia Bagirova, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
Two Ukrainian missiles were shot down in the Kursk region with no damage or casualties, according to a post on the Kursk region Telegram channel, after it was announced that the five Russian airports had been shut down.
—Lena Medvedeva, NBC News, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Shoot down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoot%20down. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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