Synonyms of shot down

shot down

verb

past tense of shoot down

1

as in ridiculed

to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter

nowadays the aging activist is routinely shot down in most quarters of the media and dismissed as an irrelevant crank

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ridiculed
• mocked
• laughed (at)
• poked fun at
• made fun of
• made sport of
• teased
• derided
• taunted
• scouted
• jeered
• ragged on
• gibed
• parodied
• cocked snooks (at)
• skewered
• cocked a snook (at)
• sneered (at)
• tormented
• scoffed (at)
• imitated
• put down
• harassed
• targeted
• scorned
• disparaged
• belittled
• ragged
• ribbed
• decried
• took off (on)
• quizzed
• rode
• rallied
• baited
• twitted
• razzed
• pestered
• mimicked
• caricatured
• tweaked
• bugged
• satirized
• chaffed
• kidded
• parroted
• harried
• heckled
• pooh-poohed
• pilloried
• lampooned
• bad-mouthed
• travestied
• needled
• burlesqued
• joshed
• hassled
• aped
• jived
• catcalled
• barracked

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• approved
• endorsed
• sanctioned
• commended
• applauded

2

as in dismissed

to reject by or as if by a vote

every one of my fund-raising ideas was shot down by the other club members

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dismissed
• killed
• refused
• vetoed
• downed
• negatived
• blackballed
• declined
• disallowed
• disapproved
• nixed
• blacklisted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• confirmed
• approved
• passed
• allowed
• admitted
• ratified
• assented (to)
• elected
• supported
• sanctioned

3

as in refuted

to prove to be false

the results of several studies shoot down the hypothesis that coffee causes heart attacks

Synonyms & Similar Words

• refuted
• overturned
• challenged
• disproved
• discredited
• rebutted
• discussed
• falsified
• confounded
• confuted
• belied
• debunked
• questioned
• talked over
• contested
• disconfirmed
• gave the lie to
• doubted
• overthrew
• debated
• hashed (over)
• mistrusted
• queried
• mooted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• established
• proved
• confirmed
• recorded
• verified
• showed
• validated
• documented
• supported
• backed (up)
• evidenced
• witnessed
• identified
• certified
• illustrated
• demonstrated
• displayed
• evinced
• attested
• manifested
• corroborated
• substantiated
• adduced
• buttressed
• authenticated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of shot down

Two weeks after that, Romanian F-16s scrambled to intercept three Russian drones over Romanian airspace, and a Spanish jet shot down a fourth near the Moldovan border. — Julianne Smith, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2026

From her first appearance until her plane is shot down in January 1944, Sanjak is an agent of chaos. — Gaby Iori october 7, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026

Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 205 drones overnight into Monday, of which 172 were shot down or suppressed. — ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026

Ukraine’s air force reported that Russia launched 205 drones overnight into Monday, with 172 shot down or suppressed. — Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026

Ukraine has also deployed Jet Ski–size marine drones that have shot down Russian fighter jets and sunk or damaged at least 19 warships, effectively neutralizing Russia’s Black Sea fleet. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 28 Sep. 2026

Boca Raton voters clearly shot down municipal and private vast expansion of downtown areas. — Peggy Gossett-Seidman, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2026

A week later, Italian fighter jets operating under NATO's air defense mission shot down a drone that entered Lithuanian airspace from Belarus. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin claimed that over 1,600 Ukrainian drones were shot down by Russian air defenses, including 450 on their several-hundred-mile approach to Moscow. — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 20 Sep. 2026