shoot sth down
— phrasal verb with shoot /ʃuːt/ verb (shot, shot)Definition
› to destroy an aircraft or make an aircraft, bird, etc. fall to the ground by shooting at it: He was killed during the war when his plane was shot down.Detonation and bombardment
(Definition of shoot sth down from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- air raid noun
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- go off phrasal verb (EXPLODE)
- let loose sth idiom
- let sth off phrasal verb
- mine verb (BOMB)
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