mow (down)
verb
1
as in to slaughter
to kill on a large scale machine guns mowed down the advancing troops without mercy Synonyms & Similar Words
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- slaughter
- massacre
- murder
- butcher
- slay
- assassinate
- execute
- wipe out
- dispatch
- destroy
- blot out
- snuff
- smite
- fell
- eradicate
- waste
- exterminate
- demolish
- do in
- annihilate
- decimate
- croak
- devastate
2
as in to drop
to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall the crowd rushing in for the sale mowed down the poor clerks standing at the front entrance Synonyms & Similar Words
- drop
- knock down
- bowl (down or over)
- knock over
- down
- level
- floor
- fell
- hit
- slam
- topple
- punch
- slap
- smack
- prostrate
- throw down
- knock out
- poke
- pound
- bang
- overthrow
- jab
- thump
- whack
- paste
- kayo
- whale
- swipe
- bash
- sock
- slug
- hammer
- belt
- swat
- bludgeon
- KO
- clobber
- smite
- thwack
- wallop
- slog