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1. Murder by shooting someone down in cold blood

1. Move quickly and violently
   "The car shot down the street";
   - tear, shoot, charge, buck, bomb [Brit], scream
    
2. Shoot at and force to come down
   "the enemy shot down several of our aircraft";
   - down, land
    
3. Thwart the passage of
   "he shot down the student's proposal";
   - kill, defeat, vote down, vote out

Derived forms: shoot-downs, shooting down, shoots down, shot down

Type of: belt along, blackball, bucket along, cannonball along, execution, hasten, hie [archaic], hotfoot, hurry, murder, negative, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, slaying, speed, step on it, travel rapidly, veto, zip