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Noun shoot-down has 1 sense
- shoot-down - murder by shooting someone down in cold blood
--1 is a kind of murder, slaying, execution
Verb shoot-down has 3 senses
- tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck - move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
--1 is one way to rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- down, shoot down, land - shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- kill, shoot down, defeat, vote down, vote out - thwart the passage of; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"
--3 is one way to veto, blackball, negative
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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