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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, and 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
- (transitive, idiomatic) To criticize a (request) to the point of preclusion.
- Every proposal I made was shot down at once.
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to cause to fall by shooting
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