shoot sth down
— phrasal verb with shoot uk/ʃuːt/us/ʃuːt/verb shot, shot
to destroy an aircraft or make an aircraft, bird, etc. fall to the ground by shooting at it:
He was killed during the war when his plane was shot down.
More examples
- He was shot down over enemy territory.
- They shot down two enemy planes during the raid.
- Over half of the planes were shot down during one raid.
- Their job was to shoot down enemy aircraft.
- He was shot down at night.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Detonation & bombardment
- air raid
- airstrike
- blanket bombing
- blitz
- blitz
- detonator
- direct hit
- dive-bomb
- firebomb
- first strike
- go off
- let loose sth idiom
- mine
- saturation bombing
- shoot
- shooting
- strafe
- strike
- strike home idiom
- torpedo
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