SHOT DOWN Synonyms: 137 Similar and Opposite Words

shot down

verb

past tense of shoot down

as in ridiculed

to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter nowadays the aging activist is routinely shot down in most quarters of the media and dismissed as an irrelevant crank

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as in dismissed

to reject by or as if by a vote every one of my fund-raising ideas was shot down by the other club members

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as in refuted

to prove to be false the results of several studies shoot down the hypothesis that coffee causes heart attacks

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Recent Examples of shot down Saudi Arabia said Monday its coalition shot down three missiles fired by Houthis toward the Eastern Province. — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026 Russia launched 16 ballistic missiles, two of which Ukraine shot down, Kyiv said. — ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026 However, not all council members shot down the motion to look into it. — Julia Avant, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026 But so far, executives for AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon have shot down the MVNO idea. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 23 Oct. 2026 Romania first shot down drones this year, marking its first such action since Moscow invaded neighboring Ukraine. — Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026 The first segment of the new season, hosted by Norah O’Donnell, was about a fighter pilot, code-named Bravo, whose plane was shot down over mountains in Iran. — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026 It’s based on the 2023 novel of the same name by Daniel Kraus, who this year won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Angel Down, about American soldiers in World War I who discover an angel who’s been shot down over a battlefield in France. — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026 The Houthis eventually agreed not to attack US shipping in the Red Sea but remained very much in place – and in the meantime shot down a number of highly advanced US Reaper drones. — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026

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Verb

Last year, retailer Target was ridiculed across social media for instituting a smiling policy.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Cruz has ridiculed Talarico’s past comments on Christianity and immigration, saying the would be more fitting for Berkeley, California, than Texas.

— Matthew Choi, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of ridiculed

Verb

The North has denied responsibility for the incident and dismissed Seoul's demand to apologize and remove its remaining mines.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
Three weeks before the election, the chairman of Israel’s Central Elections Committee dismissed the case, but the AID Coalition agreed not to buy more blocks on additional flights.

— Daniel Brook, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of dismissed

Verb

That may earn her the admiration of her college comrades, but at home, she’s seen as an idealistic naif — mocked, in particular, by her older brother Milan (Miodrag Dragicevic), who is staunchly right-wing in his sympathies.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 27 Oct. 2026
Utah removed the video and apologized, while ESPN defended McAfee’s safety concerns; online reaction largely mocked his response.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of mocked

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Two women, ages 50 and 60, were killed and dozens of other people were wounded in a Russian strike on a market in Lozova, in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, said Oleh Syniehubov, head of the regional military administration.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
Samuels was killed just minutes after posting about Wright's abuse on social media.

— WCCO Staff, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of killed

Verb

Kaegi has regularly butted heads with board members over their appeals, which often overturned his valuations of big business buildings.

— A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026
Traffic is flowing again in the northbound lanes of Route 55 in New Jersey after a tractor-trailer overturned in a crash.

— Joe Brandt, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of overturned

Verb

Bolsonaro has refused to concede defeat and has made unsubstantiated accusations of election fraud.

— MATTHEW LEE, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026
Western institutions in recent years refused to invest in gas infrastructure, arguing countries would be locked into fossil fuel dependence.

— Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of refused

Verb

To date, eight bills to recognize the tribe have passed both the State Assembly and Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support, only to be vetoed by Democratic Govs.

— Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2026
The measures are likely to be vetoed by the conservative president, Karol Nawrocki.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026

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