gun down

phrasal verb

gunned down; gunning down; guns down

: to shoot (someone) with a gun

He was gunned down in the street.

Examples of gun down in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Police on Wednesday released surveillance footage of the two suspects wanted for gunning down a 29-year-old Bronx man just blocks from the victim’s home. —Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024

Last week, a Pennsylvania man jumped out of his seat at the front of a church and tackled an armed man who walked up to the pulpit and tried to gun down a pastor mid-sermon. —Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 19 May 2024

Hamilton backing Thomas Jefferson in the 1800 presidential election was the start of what led to Burr killing Hamilton in a duel near the same spot where Hamilton’s son Philip had been gunned down a few years earlier. —Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 June 2024

The incident came just steps away from the spot on Osborn St. where 30-year-old Lamont Russell was fatally gunned down on May 18. —Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 2 June 2024