gun down

verb

gunned down; gunning down; guns down

: to shoot (someone) with a gun

He was gunned down in the street.

Examples of gun down in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The officer had the child put the gun down on the car seat and recovered it. —Wcco Staff, CBS News, 14 May 2026

Becky Hill reads Alex Murdaugh 2023 guilty verdict In 2023, Murdaugh was convicted of gunning down his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, at the family’s hunting estate in 2021. —Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026

Activists say the real death toll may never be known, with users and small-time peddlers gunned down almost daily in mysterious slumland killings blamed on vigilantes and turf wars. —Reuters, NBC news, 13 May 2026

Fan speculation ran rampant about the apparent return of Matt’s old law partner, Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson), brutally gunned down at the start of the series’s pilot episode. —ArsTechnica, 13 May 2026

Rhymes for gun down

• adown
• blowdown
• breakdown
• countdown
• crackdown
• crosstown
• downtown
• drawdown
• dropdown
• facedown
• godown
• hometown