mow down

phrasal verb

mowed down; mowed down or mown down; mowing down; mows down

informal

: to kill or knock down (a person or many people) in a sudden and violent way

The soldiers were mowed down by machine guns.

The car mowed down four pedestrians.

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For most of the night, the sellout crowd at Yankee Stadium sat awestruck at how easily Buehler mowed down the best offense in baseball. —

Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024 Undeniably beautiful as the sight of Justin Bieber getting mowed down in cold blood is, the film just doesn’t work. —

Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024 Seconds later, the truck races back into view, barreling over Sloan, still crumpled on the ground, and fatally mowing down Carter, who had been standing on the sidewalk. —

Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2024 Continue reading … 'MY PLAN IS…' – Mom who watched powerful 'narcissist' mow down her two sons makes promise to killer. —

Fox News, 13 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for mow down