shoot down

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shoot down something

1. to destroy an aircraft or weapon in the sky by shooting it. In the movie, he pulls out a portable rocket launcher and shoots down the helicopter. If we detect an incoming missile, we must be able to shoot it down.

2. to refuse to accept something. The baseball owners shot down a plan to add two more teams to each league. At a public meeting, residents shot down two different designs for rebuilding the area.

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The woods reached to the water's edge; in these, he and his warriors would conceal themselves, and shoot down the enemy as fast as they put foot on shore. Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context I thought once, `If you'd only shoot down there head-first everything would be nicely settled. Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context When Captain Sleet in person stood his mast-head in this crow's nest of his, he tells us that he always had a rifle with him (also fixed in the rack), together with a powder flask and shot, for the purpose of popping off the stray narwhales, or vagrant sea unicorns infesting those waters; for you cannot successfully shoot at them from the deck owing to the resistance of the water, but to shoot down upon them is a very different thing. Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context More results

References in classic literature

The woods reached to the water's edge; in these, he and his warriors would conceal themselves, and shoot down the enemy as fast as they put foot on shore.

Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context

I thought once, `If you'd only shoot down there head-first everything would be nicely settled.

Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context

When Captain Sleet in person stood his mast-head in this crow's nest of his, he tells us that he always had a rifle with him (also fixed in the rack), together with a powder flask and shot, for the purpose of popping off the stray narwhales, or vagrant sea unicorns infesting those waters; for you cannot successfully shoot at them from the deck owing to the resistance of the water, but to shoot down upon them is a very different thing.

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context

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