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shot downverbpast tense 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 derided, gibed(or jibed), jeered, laughed (at), mocked, ridiculed, scouted, skewered scoffed (at), scorned, sneered (at)bad-mouthed, belittled, decried, disparaged, pooh-poohed(also poohed), put downchaffed, jived, joshed, kidded, quizzed, rallied, razzed, ribbed, rode(or chiefly dialectical rid), teased, tweaked, twittedbaited, barracked(chiefly British), bugged, catcalled, harassed, harried, hassled, heckled, needled, pestered, ragged, targeted, taunted, tormentedaped, burlesqued, caricatured, imitated, lampooned, mimicked, parodied, parroted, pilloried, satirized, took off (on), travestied cocked a snook (at)also cocked snooks (at), made fun of, made sport of, poked fun at, ragged on applauded, approved, commended, endorsed(also indorsed), sanctioned to reject by or as if by a voteevery one of my fund-raising ideas was shot down by the other club members blackballed, downed, killed, negatived, nixed, vetoed declined, disallowed, disapproved, dismissed, refusedblacklisted confirmed, ratified admitted, allowed, approved, assented (to), passed, sanctionedelected, supported to prove to be falsethe results of several studies shoot down the hypothesis that coffee causes heart attacks belied, confounded, confuted, debunked, disconfirmed, discredited, disproved, falsified, rebutted, refuted overthrew, overturnedchallenged, contested, queried, questioneddoubted, mistrusteddebated, discussed, hashed (over), mooted, talked over gave the lie to confirmed, established, proved, validated, verified documented, evidenced, evinced, recorded, showed, supported, witnessedbacked (up), buttressed, corroborated, substantiatedadduced, attested, authenticated, certified, identifieddemonstrated, displayed, illustrated, manifested |