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shoot downverb to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughternowadays the aging activist is routinely shot down in most quarters of the media and dismissed as an irrelevant crank deride, gibe(or jibe), jeer, laugh (at), mock, ridicule, scout, skewer scoff (at), scorn, sneer (at)bad-mouth, belittle, decry, disparage, pooh-pooh(also pooh), put downchaff, jive, josh, kid, quiz, rally, razz, rib, ride, tease, tweak, twitbait, barrack(chiefly British), bug, catcall, harass, harry, hassle, heckle, needle, pester, rag, target, taunt, tormentape, burlesque, caricature, imitate, lampoon, mimic, parody, parrot, pillory, satirize, take off (on), travesty cock a snook (at)also cock snooks (at), make fun of, make sport of, poke fun at, rag on applaud, approve, commend, endorse(also indorse), sanction to reject by or as if by a voteevery one of my fund-raising ideas was shot down by the other club members blackball, down, kill, negative, nix, veto decline, disallow, disapprove, dismiss, refuseblacklist confirm, ratify admit, allow, approve, assent (to), pass, sanctionelect, support to prove to be falsethe results of several studies shoot down the hypothesis that coffee causes heart attacks belie, confound, confute, debunk, disconfirm, discredit, disprove, falsify, rebut, refute overthrow, overturnchallenge, contest, query, questiondoubt, mistrustdebate, discuss, hash (over), moot, talk over give the lie to confirm, establish, prove, validate, verify document, evidence, evince, record, show, support, witnessback (up), buttress, corroborate, substantiateadduce, attest, authenticate, certify, identifydemonstrate, display, illustrate, manifest in 1657 |