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shooting downverbpresent participle of shoot down 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 deriding, gibing(or jibing), jeering, laughing (at), mocking, ridiculing, scouting, skewering scoffing (at), scorning, sneering (at)bad-mouthing, belittling, decrying, disparaging, pooh-poohing(also poohing), putting downchaffing, jiving, joshing, kidding, quizzing, rallying, razzing, ribbing, riding, teasing, tweaking, twittingbaiting, barracking(chiefly British), bugging, catcalling, harassing, harrying, hassling, heckling, needling, pestering, ragging, targeting, taunting, tormentingaping, burlesquing, caricaturing, imitating, lampooning, mimicking, parodying, parroting, pillorying, satirizing, taking off (on), travestying cocking a snook (at)also cocking snooks (at), making fun of, making sport of, poking fun at, ragging on applauding, approving, commending, endorsing(also indorsing), sanctioning to reject by or as if by a voteevery one of my fund-raising ideas was shot down by the other club members blackballing, downing, killing, negativing, nixing, vetoing declining, disallowing, disapproving, dismissing, refusingblacklisting confirming, ratifying admitting, allowing, approving, assenting (to), passing, sanctioningelecting, supporting to prove to be falsethe results of several studies shoot down the hypothesis that coffee causes heart attacks belying, confounding, confuting, debunking, disconfirming, discrediting, disproving, falsifying, rebutting, refuting overthrowing, overturningchallenging, contesting, querying, questioningdoubting, mistrustingdebating, discussing, hashing (over), mooting, talking over giving the lie to confirming, establishing, proving, validating, verifying documenting, evidencing, evincing, recording, showing, supporting, witnessingbacking (up), buttressing, corroborating, substantiatingadducing, attesting, authenticating, certifying, identifyingdemonstrating, displaying, illustrating, manifesting |