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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Desperate to avoid being mowed down, the victim leapt onto the hood and clung on for nearly 330 feet until he was thrown from the car and onto the pavement. —

Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2025 Jabbar used a truck to mow down people on Bourbon Street in the early hours of Jan. 1. —

Richard Esposito, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2025 Rodriguez was mowed down around 12:44 a.m. while directing traffic after a performance by Bronx bachata band Aventura. —

Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2025 The suspect mowed down dozens of people over a three-block stretch on the world-famous thoroughfare while firing into the crowd, police said. —

Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for mow down