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单词 shoot down
释义 shoot down
I. transitive verb
: to bring down by shooting: as
 a. : to kill or incapacitate with a shot; especially : to kill (a person) by shooting mercilessly or in cold blood
  < warned that anyone who tried to escape would be shot down >
  < shot him down without a qualm >
 b. : to cause (as an airplane) to fall to earth by shooting
  < four of our planes were shot down in flames >
  < shot his first plane down at the age of eighteen >
II. transitive verb
1. : to put an end to : make ineffective or void : defeat
2. : deflate : ridicule ; also : reprove
3. : to expose weakness or inaccuracy in : discredit
 < shoot down a theory >
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