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mow someone down1Kill someone with a fusillade of bullets or other missiles: he was mown down in a hail of machine-gun bullets...- On Friday, 20 guerrillas captured 8 policemen at a checkpoint near the city, took them to their offices, and mowed them down with gunfire.
- It's about one of the prisoners who did escape as they were marched out there, blindfolded and put before mass graves, and they mowed them down and they buried them.
- It is not surprising that they were mown down by machine-gun fire.
Synonyms kill, gun down, shoot down, cut down, cut to pieces, butcher, slaughter, massacre, decimate, annihilate, exterminate, liquidate, wipe out, destroy informal blow away North American informal smoke literary slay 1.1Recklessly knock down someone with a car or other vehicle: a father-of-four was mown down and killed as he cycled home from work...- The gates are now closed from 10.00 till 17.00 and 4-wheeled vehicles can no longer mow us down.
- Two sons said yesterday they had forgiven the car thieves who killed their father by mowing him down on his garage forecourt.
- Last August, Fletcher landed in intensive care after a car mowed him down while he was crossing a street in Carmel Valley, California.
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