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shoots downverbpresent tense third-person singular 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 derides, gibes(or jibes), jeers, laughs (at), mocks, ridicules, scouts, skewers scoffs (at), scorns, sneers (at)bad-mouths, belittles, decries, disparages, pooh-poohs(also poohs), puts downchaffs, jives, joshes, kids, quizzes, rallies, razzes, ribs, rides, teases, tweaks, twitsbaits, barracks(chiefly British), bugs, catcalls, harasses, harries, hassles, heckles, needles, pesters, rags, targets, taunts, tormentsapes, burlesques, caricatures, imitates, lampoons, mimics, parodies, parrots, pillories, satirizes, takes off (on), travesties cocks a snook (at)also cocks snooks (at), makes fun of, makes sport of, pokes fun at, rags on applauds, approves, commends, endorses(also indorses), sanctions to reject by or as if by a voteevery one of my fund-raising ideas was shot down by the other club members blackballs, downs, kills, negatives, nixes, vetoes declines, disallows, disapproves, dismisses, refusesblacklists confirms, ratifies admits, allows, approves, assents (to), passes, sanctionselects, supports to prove to be falsethe results of several studies shoot down the hypothesis that coffee causes heart attacks belies, confounds, confutes, debunks, disconfirms, discredits, disproves, falsifies, rebuts, refutes overthrows, overturnschallenges, contests, queries, questionsdoubts, mistrustsdebates, discusses, hashes (over), moots, talks over gives the lie to confirms, establishes, proves, validates, verifies documents, evidences, evinces, records, shows, supports, witnessesbacks (up), buttresses, corroborates, substantiatesadduces, attests, authenticates, certifies, identifiesdemonstrates, displays, illustrates, manifests |