shoot down

1. 1.

   move quickly and violently

   “The car tore down the street”

   “He came charging into my office”

   Synonymstearshootchargebuck

   Broaderrush

   Narrowerrip
2. 2.

   shoot at and force to come down

   “the enemy landed several of our aircraft”

   Synonymsdownland
3. 3.

   thwart the passage of

   “kill a motion”

   “he shot down the student's proposal”

   Synonymskilldefeatvote downvote out

   Broaderveto

Questions about shoot down

What does shoot down mean?

shoot down means "move quickly and violently". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for shoot down?

Close synonyms include tear, shoot, charge, buck, down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shoot down a common word?

shoot down is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.