1) The past
tense of having been rejected, often publicly, severely, and in a confidence-destroying way.
2) The past tense of
firing upon an
aircraft for the purpose of destroying it.
1) I went to ask Danielle out, but I got shot down. Now, all of her friends laugh at me and I can't show my face anymore.
2) A
fighter jet was shot down over
Libya by a
missile and was completely destroyed.