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shootdownnoun
The shooting down of an aircraft, satellite, etc.
Etymology: shoot down
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Shootdown
Shootdown is a 1988 film starring Angela Lansbury. Leonard Hill served as the executive producer. In the film, Nan Moore loses her son in the Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shoot down. She wishes to discover the truth about her son's death. The film's production was delayed due to controversies surrounding the KAL007 incident.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of shootdown in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of shootdown in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of shootdown in a Sentence
Had Turkey responded ... it could have resulted in a shootdown, and it is precisely the kind of thing we warned against.
Iran is looming very, very large after the resumption of its nuclear activities, the Saudi Aramco attack and earlier this summer the shootdown of the (U.S.) RQ-4 reconnaissance drone, all of these elements are coming together to raise tensions and then you have the internal unrest in Iran which I think exacerbates the situation, because you don't know how the leadership is going to react in a moment like that.
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