gun sb down
— phrasal verb with gun uk/ɡʌn/us/ɡʌn/verb [ T ] -nn- mainly US old-fashioned informal
to shoot someone and kill or seriously injure them, often when that person cannot defend himself or herself:
The police officer was gunned down as he took his children to school.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Murder & attempted murder
- assassinate
- assassination
- attempt
- blow sb away
- blow sb's brains out idiom
- bump
- dispatch
- lynch law
- manslaughter
- martyr
- martyred
- mass murder
- necklace
- poison
- slain
- slay
- slaying
- slew 1
- snuff sb out
- throttle
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