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View synonyms for shoot down

shoot down

verb

  1. to shoot callously
  2. to cause to fall to earth by hitting with a missile
  3. to defeat or disprove

    he shot down her argument

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Shoot down or drive off the tankers and the fighters never make it back.

“I thought North Korea might shoot down the plane, I thought they could hear my thoughts,” she says, grinning.

But after the shoot-down of MH17, the White House may begin to look at sending more sophisticated equipment to Ukraine.

Terrorist groups could certainly use those weapons in an attempt to shoot down an airliner.

The missile system most likely used to shoot down Malaysia Airline MH17 is common, lethal, and crewed by men with little training.

Finally, in the month of May, they commenced to shoot down Union men in the streets.

Mr. Brownlow was in the street at the time they made propositions to shoot down other Union men.

And if those other sons of pigs in the canoes board us, we white men will shoot down every last one o you here.

We have sworn vengeance on such people and will shoot down like a mad dog men whom we learn to be members of the Klan.

The eagle sees the rabbit a great way off, and he will immediately shoot down and seize it.

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