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shoot someone/thing down1Bring down an aircraft or missile by shooting at it: their helicopter was shot down by an air-to-air missile...- Through the windows you could see the Scuds arcing over the city and the Patriot missiles trying to shoot them down.
- The TMD system is intended to detect with satellites ballistic missiles flying within a 3,000-kilometer radius and to shoot them down with missiles.
- The footage also showed that flight patterns were found for aircraft, along with plans and instructions for how to shoot them down.
1.1Kill or wound someone by shooting them, especially in a ruthless way: troops shot down 28 demonstrators...- Bill Quick is the guy who tells Winer that the group should shoot the murdering creature down before it kills them all.
- Within the next few minutes a dozen more people were shot down and many wounded.
- The first wave of soldiers guarding the base was shot down easily, having not been prepared for an attack.
1.2Crush someone or their opinions by forceful criticism: she tried to argue and got shot down in flames for her trouble...- More than a year before his dream for the North was shot down in flames, Ministers were warned in focus group research that scepticism in the three Northern regions was rife.
- His aspirations are lofty, yet he has displayed a lack of reverence towards the NFL that means there are already many who hope his aim of winning a Super Bowl is shot down in flames.
- Bolton's hopes of completing a double over Manchester United were shot down in flames as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer fired the Reds to a 4-0 win at the Reebok Stadium.
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