mow sb down
— phrasal verb with mow uk/məʊ/us/moʊ/verb [ I or T ] mowed, mown or mowed
to kill people, usually in large numbers, by shooting them or driving a vehicle into them:
Three shoppers were mown down this afternoon when a drunken driver lost control of his car.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Murder & attempted murder
- assassinate
- assassination
- attempt
- blow sb away
- blow sb's brains out idiom
- bump
- dispatch
- lynch
- lynch law
- manslaughter
- martyr
- martyred
- necklace
- poison
- slain
- slay
- slaying
- slew 1
- snuff sb out
- throttle
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