shoot down
Verb
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Verb
shoot down
- (transitive) To cause to fall by shooting.
- The carnival game involved shooting down tin cans.
- My grandfather shot down several fighter planes in the war.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To criticize a (request) to the point of preclusion.
- Every proposal I made was shot down at once.
- French: abattre
- German: niederschießen, abschießen
- Portuguese: abater, derrubar
- Russian: сбива́ть
- Spanish: derribar, abatir
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