gun down
phrasal verb
gunned down; gunning down; guns down
: to shoot (someone) with a gun
He was gunned down in the street.
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In July 2022, Shinzo Abe was gunned down on a street in Nara, which is near Wakayama, by a disgruntled man who had made the weapon himself.
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Martin Fackler, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
An Amber Alert issued Sunday morning for a 4-year-old girl abducted from her mother’s South Florida home by a father under a domestic violence restraining order ended with the mother gunned down and the father arrested, deputies say.
—David J. Neal and, Miami Herald, 17 Feb. 2025
The 17-year-old was back at school after weeks of remote classes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic when he was gunned down by two armed teenage rivals waiting for him outside the Urban Dove Charter School in Midwood at dismissal.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2025
The desire to speak out about racial inequity and privilege hit him hard after a white Ferguson police officer gunned down Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black student in a St. Louis, Mo. suburb.
—Mará Rose Williams, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2025
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Martin Fackler, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
An Amber Alert issued Sunday morning for a 4-year-old girl abducted from her mother’s South Florida home by a father under a domestic violence restraining order ended with the mother gunned down and the father arrested, deputies say.
—David J. Neal and, Miami Herald, 17 Feb. 2025
The 17-year-old was back at school after weeks of remote classes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic when he was gunned down by two armed teenage rivals waiting for him outside the Urban Dove Charter School in Midwood at dismissal.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2025
The desire to speak out about racial inequity and privilege hit him hard after a white Ferguson police officer gunned down Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black student in a St. Louis, Mo. suburb.
—Mará Rose Williams, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Gun down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gun%20down. Accessed 26 Feb. 2025.
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