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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb shoot down has 3 senses

• shoot down(v = verb.motion) buck, charge, shoot, tear - move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
is one way to belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

• shoot down(v = verb.motion) down, land - shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• shoot down(v = verb.social) defeat, kill, vote down, vote out - thwart the passage of; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"
is one way to blackball, negative, veto
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

THESAURUS

shoot down

KO, blow to pieces, blow up, brain, bring down, burn to death, call off, cancel, charge, cock, complete, cook, cut down, cut to pieces, deal a deathblow, defeat, delete, detonate, discharge, dish, disintegrate, dispose of, do for, do in, drop, drop the curtain, eject, end off, expunge, extinguish, fell, finalize, finish, fire, fire off, fix, fold up, frag, get it over, get over with, get through with, give the quietus, gun, gun down, gun for, hit, incinerate, jugulate, kayo, kibosh, kill, knock out, lapidate, lay low, let fly, let off, load, pelt, pepper, perfect, pick off, pistol, plug, poleax, polish off, pot, potshoot, potshot, prime, put paid to, riddle, scrag, scuttle, settle, shoot, shoot at, shoot to death, shotgun, silence, sink, snipe, stab to death, stone, stone to death, strike, strike dead, take a potshot, torpedo, undo, vaporize, wipe out, zap

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