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1. Murder by shooting someone down in cold blood

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

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

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