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English verb: shoot down | |||
| 1. | shoot down (motion) move quickly and violently | ||
| Samples | The car tore down the street. He came charging into my office. | ||
| Synonyms | buck, charge, shoot, tear | ||
| Pattern of use | Something is ----ing PP. Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | rip | ||
| Verb group | dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud, shoot | ||
| 2. | shoot down (motion) shoot at and force to come down | ||
| Samples | The enemy landed several of our aircraft. | ||
| Synonyms | down, land | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| 3. | shoot down (social) thwart the passage of | ||
| Samples | Kill a motion. He shot down the student's proposal. | ||
| Synonyms | defeat, kill, vote down, vote out | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | blackball, negative, veto | ||
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