shoot down

1. (transitive)To cause to fall by shooting.

   The carnival game involved shooting down tin cans.

   My grandfather shot down several fighter planes in the war.

   niederschießen, abschießen

   сбива́тьsbivátʹ, сбитьsbitʹ

   збива́тиzbyváty, зби́тиzbýty

2. (idiomatic, transitive)To criticize (a request) to the point of preclusion.

   Every proposal I made was shot down at once.

1. Shoot it down.

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2. Paul managed to shoot them all down.

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3. I am going to shoot down enemy aircraft.

   ruЯ собираюсь сбивать вражеские самолеты. — Balamax

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4. Lukas tried to shoot the drone down.

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5. A hunter was beaten to death, after shooting down a buffallo.

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irregular · Lesson

• shoot offстріляти, вистрілитиTo leave quickly.
• shoot downзбити, збиватиTo cause to fall by shooting.
• shoot upTo grow taller or larger rapidly.
• shoot outTo destroy something or remove something from its usual location by shooting.
• shoot backUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, back.
• shoot aroundTo record footage in the absence of (one of the actors), with the intention of editing in their sequences at a later stage.
• shoot throughTo leave, to disappear.