shoot down

See also: shootdown

English[edit]

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.
- 2022 November 10, Ava Max, Melanie Fontana, Michel Schulz, Ryan Tedder, Madison Love, Cirkut, “Weapons”, in Diamonds & Dancefloors‎^[1], performed by Ava Max:
  Stop using your words as weapons / They're never gonna shoot me down / Stop, it's time that you learned a lesson / My love is gonna drown you out
- 2023 February 12, Daniel E. Slotnik, Amelia Nierenberg, “Your Monday Briefing: U.S. Destroys U.F.O.s”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 February 2023, Briefing:
  In China, authorities said they might soon shoot down an unidentified flying object over waters near the northern city of Rizhao, The South China Morning Post reported.
(transitive, idiomatic) To criticize a (request) to the point of preclusion.
Every proposal I made was shot down at once.

to cause to fall by shooting