shoot-down in English

noun
1
an act or instance of bringing down an aircraft by shooting at it.
Officials say a second Tamil jet was shot down .
verb

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1. They'll never shoot down a head of state.

2. I'll shoot down this ship along with that brat!

3. More about the Archerfishes' infamous ability to shoot down insects

4. We need to shoot down Seven Swords with a cannon.

5. Shoot down the Taliban fighter with RPK on his shoulder.

6. To be an ace you had to shoot down five enemy aircraft.

7. Drive a big Awesome tank and shoot down enemies with your war machine

8. A biplane attempts to shoot down one of the airships, but is destroyed itself.

9. Nevertheless, he somehow bribed his way out of hospital to shoot down an impudent intruder strafing his base.

10. At the meeting Smith made some objection to my plan which I was able to shoot down in flames with no trouble.

11. Archerfish are renowned for their ability to “shoot down” insect prey by expelling beads of water from their mouth with considerable force.

12. In 1983, he secured an additional $40 million, $17 million of which was allocated for anti-aircraft weapons to shoot down Mil Mi-24 Hind helicopters.

13. The AQM-37 Jayhawk (originally designated the Beech KD2B) is an air-launched supersonic target drone manufactured by Beechcraft capable of simulating inbound ICBM warhead packages for fleet shoot-down exercises.

14. About This Game Hunt enemy convoys, battle destroyers, attack land bases, and shoot down aircraft in this long-awaited sequel to "Crash dive". Take command of a Gato-class submarine prowling the South Pacific in search of enemy shipping to sink.

15. If we regularly deposit positive , encouraging , and uplifting thoughts , if we continue to bite our lips just before we begin to grumble and complain , if we shoot down that seemingly harmless negative thought as it germinates , we will find that there is much to rejoice about .

16. Blackball: 1 v vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent Synonyms: negative , veto Types: defeat , kill , shoot down , vote down , vote out thwart the passage of Type of: contradict , controvert , oppose be resistant to v expel from a community or group Synonyms: ban , banish , cast out , ostracise , ostracize , shun Type of: expel ,