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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Time and time again, our youth are gunned down in classrooms and our communities are scarred forever. Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025 Paul Hill, who was executed for gunning down a Florida clinic doctor and a volunteer in 1994, cited Bonhoeffer in viewing the attacks against clinics as a way of preventing a holocaust. John Blake, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025 Mangione is accused of gunning down Thompson outside a Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan as the CEO headed to an investors conference on Dec. 4. Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2025 Thompson, a 50-year-old husband and father of two from Minnesota, was at the New York City hotel for an investor conference when he was gunned down from behind on the sidewalk. Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gun down

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“Gun down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gun%20down. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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