shooting down

Verb

shoot down (third-person singular simple present shoots down, present participle shooting down, simple past and past participle shot down)

1. (transitive) To cause to fall by shooting.
   • The carnival game involved shooting down tin cans.
2. (idiomatic, transitive) To criticize (a request) to the point of preclusion.
   • Every proposal I made was shot down at once.