Usually means: To cause to fall by shooting.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. shoot down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shoot down: Merriam-Webster
  3. shoot-down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shoot down: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shoot-down, shoot down: Vocabulary.com
  6. shoot-down: Wordnik
  7. shoot down: Wiktionary
  8. shoot-down, shoot down: Dictionary.com
  9. Shoot Down: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. shoot-down, shoot down: Rhymezone
  11. shoot-down, shoot down: FreeDictionary.org
  12. shoot-down, shoot down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. shoot-down, shoot down: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shoot down: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shoot down: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shoot down: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shoot down)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to fall by shooting.
▸ verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To criticize (a request) to the point of preclusion.

Similar:
down, tear, shoot, charge, land, buck, bring down, drop, gun down, haul down, more...

Opposite:
approve, support, endorse, validate, back

Types:
intercept, destroy, eliminate, disarm, neutralize, more...

Adjectives:
throwable, cut, rash, cut out, crash, fleet, street, blotto, breakaway, split, broken

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Similar:
down, tear, shoot, charge, land, buck, bring down, drop, gun down, haul down, more...

Opposite:
approve, support, endorse, validate, back

Types:
intercept, destroy, eliminate, disarm, neutralize, more...

Adjectives:
throwable, cut, rash, cut out, crash, fleet, street, blotto, breakaway, split, broken



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