Synonyms of shooting down

shooting down

verb

present participle of shoot down

1

as in ridiculing

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ridiculing
• mocking
• laughing (at)
• making fun of
• poking fun at
• ragging on
• making sport of
• cocking snooks (at)
• scouting
• cocking a snook (at)
• teasing
• taunting
• jeering
• deriding
• gibing
• sneering (at)
• jibing
• parodying
• scoffing (at)
• skewering
• imitating
• tormenting
• harassing
• taking off (on)
• targeting
• putting down
• disparaging
• belittling
• scorning
• kidding
• riding
• decrying
• baiting
• ribbing
• poohing
• razzing
• pestering
• mimicking
• quizzing
• rallying
• tweaking
• travestying
• ragging
• twitting
• chaffing
• bugging
• parroting
• jiving
• satirizing
• caricaturing
• heckling
• burlesquing
• bad-mouthing
• joshing
• aping
• harrying
• hassling
• lampooning
• pillorying
• needling
• pooh-poohing
• catcalling
• barracking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• approving
• endorsing
• commending
• sanctioning
• applauding
• indorsing

2

as in dismissing

to reject by or as if by a vote

every one of my fund-raising ideas was shot down by the other club members

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dismissing
• killing
• vetoing
• refusing
• downing
• negativing
• blackballing
• declining
• disallowing
• nixing
• disapproving
• blacklisting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• confirming
• passing
• allowing
• approving
• admitting
• ratifying
• assenting (to)
• supporting
• electing
• sanctioning

3

as in refuting

to prove to be false

the results of several studies shoot down the hypothesis that coffee causes heart attacks

Synonyms & Similar Words

• refuting
• overturning
• challenging
• disproving
• giving the lie to
• discrediting
• falsifying
• rebutting
• discussing
• debunking
• confounding
• confuting
• talking over
• belying
• questioning
• disconfirming
• hashing (over)
• contesting
• overthrowing
• doubting
• debating
• querying
• mistrusting
• mooting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• establishing
• proving
• confirming
• verifying
• showing
• validating
• recording
• backing (up)
• supporting
• documenting
• witnessing
• evidencing
• identifying
• corroborating
• displaying
• certifying
• evincing
• illustrating
• attesting
• demonstrating
• manifesting
• substantiating
• buttressing
• authenticating
• adducing