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Synonyms for shoot down
shoot down
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Princeton's WordNet
shoot-downverb
murder by shooting someone down in cold blood
tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buckverb
move quickly and violently
"The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
Synonyms:
hitch, land, jerk, shoot, flash, scoot, bear down, scud, sprout, hit, consign, excite, commove, commit, blame, film, snap, down, appoint, take, point, pullulate, agitate, load, bill, deplumate, bourgeon, defeat, rouse, buck, saddle, pull, fool away, fritter, kill, lodge, dissipate, dart, frivol away, file, bust, burgeon forth, accuse, level, institutionalize, turn on, pluck, fritter away, charge, inject, vote down, deplume, germinate, institutionalise, fool, burden, photograph, charge up, blast, dash, send, go against, spud, rupture, pip, vote out, displume, teardown, shoot down, landverb
shoot at and force to come down
"the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
Synonyms:
vote out, refine, pour down, bring down, drink down, toss off, knock down, fine-tune, polish, set down, buck, go through, put down, kill, bring, bolt down, pop, push down, belt down, tear, land, consume, pull down, charge, vote down, defeat, shoot, down, set ashore, devour, cut down, shorekill, shoot down, defeat, vote down, vote outverb
thwart the passage of
"kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"
Synonyms:
pour down, drink down, toss off, shoot, wipe out, overcome, buck, kill, down, bolt down, pop, stamp out, belt down, tear, vote down, vote out, charge, obliterate, land, get the better of, turn thumbs down, defeat
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#233 | send | |
#246 | take | |
#281 | file | |
#311 | down | |
#364 | level | |
#438 | point | |
#677 | film | |
#773 | land | |
#813 | bill | |
#1174 | flash | |
#1425 | bring | |
#1453 | charge | |
#1523 | pop | |
#1551 | hit | |
#2135 | load | |
#3096 | kill | |
#3496 | lodge | |
#3810 | pull | |
#4105 | commit | |
#4835 | polish | |
#5175 | shoot | |
#5221 | shore | |
#5397 | refine | |
#5732 | photograph | |
#6303 | burden | |
#6477 | blast | |
#7199 | blame | |
#7321 | snap | |
#7548 | overcome | |
#7585 | fool | |
#8135 | defeat | |
#8285 | buck | |
#8587 | dash | |
#9356 | tear | |
#10713 | bust | |
#10771 | saddle | |
#12149 | appoint | |
#12803 | excite | |
#13640 | consume | |
#14556 | jerk | |
#14594 | hitch | |
#15944 | dart | |
#20275 | pip | |
#23792 | inject | |
#24292 | rupture | |
#25600 | accuse | |
#28085 | pluck | |
#29678 | rouse | |
#34743 | sprout | |
#43092 | devour | |
#43852 | spud | |
#49275 | dissipate | |
#56541 | scoot | |
#59155 | scud | |
#67452 | germinate | |
#72502 | obliterate | |
#81532 | consign | |
#85968 | institutionalize | |
#86407 | agitate | |
#132897 | fritter | |
#230878 | institutionalise |
How to use shoot down in a sentence?
It'd be kind of nice to have a Russian system shoot down a Russian aircraft.
I would never shoot down space, never, never. I would literally never shoot down anything, as long as it hits the parameters :' Is it badass ? is it awesome ? Will the audience love it ? And will it not break faith with the audience as they're watching it ?' I'm down for whatever.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie:
We would shoot down the planes of Russian pilots if in fact they were stupid enough to think that this president was the same feckless weakling( as) the president we have in the Oval Office... right now.
Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and “smart!” You shouldn’t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!
The S-400 is a Russian system designed to shoot down an aircraft like the F-35, and it is inconceivable to imagine Russia not taking advantage of that (intelligence) collection opportunity.
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