shoot sb down
— phrasal verb with shoot uk/ʃuːt/us/ʃuːt/verb shot, shot
to shoot and usually kill someone, showing no sympathy:
I saw Leonforte shoot him down like a dog in the street.
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Murder & attempted murder
- assassinate
- assassination
- attempt
- blow sb away
- blow sb's brains out idiom
- bump
- dispatch
- lynch
- lynch law
- manslaughter
- martyr
- martyred
- necklace
- poison
- slain
- slay
- slaying
- slew 1
- snuff sb out
- throttle
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