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Shoot down

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To cause to fall by shooting. transitive

    "The carnival game involved shooting down tin cans."

  2. 2
    shoot at and force to come down wordnet
  3. 3
    To criticize (a request) to the point of preclusion. idiomatic, transitive

    "Every proposal I made was shot down at once."

  4. 4
    move quickly and violently wordnet
  5. 5
    thwart the passage of wordnet

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