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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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 The movie opens in a classroom at Calumet High School, home of the Wolverines, where, against the backdrop of an idyllic Rocky Mountain community, incoming communist paratroopers unpack weapons crates and begin mowing down everyone and everything in sight. —

TIME, 9 Aug. 2024 Milad Hossain was crossing 37th St. at Fort Hamilton Parkway when he was mowed down by a Honda CR-V at about 10:35 p.m. Nov. 13. —

John Annese, New York Daily News, 31 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for mow down