| 单词 | strike somebody ↔ down |
| 释义 | strike somebody ↔ down From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstrike somebody ↔ down phrasal verb1 KILLto kill someone or make them extremely illOver 50 nurses at the clinic have been struck down with a mystery virus.They would rob the bodies of those struck down in battle.Grammar Strike down is usually passive in this meaning.2 HIT formal to hit someone so hard that they fall down3 law to say that a law, decision etc is illegal and officially end it → strike→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusstrike down• Full of risk and unexpected peril just waiting to strike you down.• His description of the beauty he saw was lyrical lightning, and it probably struck him down.• I struck his arm down and stood ready to hit him again, harder.• Achilles had spared Priam, but Achilles' son struck him down before the eyes of his wife and daughters.• But the sun seldom came sideways, preferring instead to strike straight down from above. |
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