shoot down
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- To cause an aircraft, projectile, or person to fall or be destroyed by firing weapons at it; to kill or bring down by shooting.
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- To reject, dismiss, or refute an idea, proposal, argument, or suggestion emphatically.
- To defeat or negate an assertion or plan through criticism, contradiction, or decisive response.
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- To fire upon from a higher position (to shoot down on/upon), or more generally to direct gunfire downward toward a target.
- To move or cause to move rapidly downward or toward a destination (e.g., to "shoot down the stretch"), implying sudden, swift motion.
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