strike sb down
— phrasal verb with strike uk/straɪk/us/straɪk/verb struck, struck
If someone is struck down, they die suddenly or start to suffer from a serious illness:
It's a tragedy that these young people were struck down in their prime.
He was struck down by polio when he was a teenager.
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Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- inquest
- loss
- mortality
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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