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Meanings of shoot down in English

Spanish
despedir

Move quickly and violently.

        Related terms
        despedir
        Spanish
        echar abajo

        Thwart the passage of.

              echar abajo
              Spanish
              derribar

              Shoot at and force to come down.

                    derribar
                    Usage of shoot down in English
                    1
                    Their weapons were always at hand to shoot down the straggling savage.
                    Twice-Told Tales
                    2
                    At one time I appeared to shoot down a very steep hill.
                    The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the...
                    3
                    You send militiamen and shoot down our organizers, and we are helpless.
                    The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
                    4
                    He had no rear guard to shoot down any one who ran.
                    "Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment / Or, A Side ...
                    5
                    The separatists still shoot down Georgian spy planes from time to time.
                    Reuters
                    6
                    I did not know anyone was using it to shoot down airplanes.
                    Wild Storm
                    7
                    New solid-state lasers like Raytheon's Phalanx can already shoot down mortar rounds.
                    Wired
                    8
                    You're going to go hunting and shoot down all the dark ones?
                    Metro 2033
                    9
                    The moment the leading horse rounds this corner we shoot down the men.
                    Tom Tufton's Travels
                    10
                    He made a pretence of raising a pistol to shoot down the sentry.
                    Philip Winwood / A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American...
                    11
                    But the deputies, with unerring aim, shoot down the voluntary captive.
                    The Transgressors / Story of a Great Sin / A Political Novel of ...
                    12
                    Then I felt a painful tingling shoot down my right arm.
                    The Night of the Long Knives
                    13
                    You may shoot down dozens of them, but that only redoubles their fury.
                    The Treasure of the Incas: A Story of Adventure in Peru
                    14
                    And, what is more, he learned not to over- shoot down hill.
                    The Blazed Trail
                    15
                    You can't shoot down this young fellow without making all kinds of trouble.
                    The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North
                    16
                    How could he shoot down in cold blood a fellow man?
                    The Inn at the Red Oak
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