English
Pronunciation
Verb
shoot down (third-person singular simple present shoots down, present participle shooting down, simple past and past participle shot down)
- (transitive) To cause to fall by shooting.
The carnival game involved shooting down tin cans.
My grandfather shot down several fighter planes in the war.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To criticize a (request) to the point of preclusion.
Every proposal I made was shot down at once.
Translations
to cause to fall by shooting
- Armenian: խոցել (hy) (xocʻel)
- Belarusian: збіва́ць impf (zbivácʹ), збіць pf (zbicʹ)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 擊落/击落 (zh) (jīluò), 击落 (zh) (jīluò)
- Dutch: neerhalen (nl)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: ampua alas
- French: abattre (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: niederschießen (de), abschießen (de)
- Ido: fusilagar (io)
- Italian: abbattere (it)
- Japanese: 撃ち落とす (ja) (うちおとす, uchiotosu)
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- Khmer: បាញ់ធ្លាក់ (baɲ tleak)
- Malay: menembak jatuh
- Polish: zestrzeliwać impf, zestrzelić pf
- Portuguese: abater (pt), derrubar (pt)
- Romagnol: abàtar
- Romanian: doborî (ro)
- Russian: сбива́ть (ru) impf (sbivátʹ), сбить (ru) pf (sbitʹ)
- Spanish: derribar (es), abatir (es)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: збива́ти impf (zbyváty), зби́ти pf (zbýty)
- Vietnamese: bắn trúng, bắn hạ
- Yiddish: אונטערשיסן (untershisn)
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