gun down
verb
gunned down; gunning down; guns down
: to shoot (someone) with a gun
He was gunned down in the street.
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One room broadcasts footage of him taking a bow after the winter 1998 Atelier Versace show, which the curators billed as the last public images of the designer before he was gunned down in Miami at age 50.
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Miles Socha, Footwear News, 4 June 2026
Javon Carter is accused of being the hitman who gunned down a Miami federal airport officer in a murder-for-hire plot financed by a PPP loan.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 2 June 2026
Later, the hotel became notorious for Mob activity and drug parties, and was the site where a reputed mobster and associate of the late Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa was gunned down in the parking lot in 1983.
—Elizabeth Owens-Schiele, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2026
Three men were arrested Thursday for the execution-style killing of a father of four more than nine months after he was gunned down outside a Bronx smoke shop, cops said.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 29 May 2026
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Miles Socha, Footwear News, 4 June 2026
Javon Carter is accused of being the hitman who gunned down a Miami federal airport officer in a murder-for-hire plot financed by a PPP loan.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 2 June 2026
Later, the hotel became notorious for Mob activity and drug parties, and was the site where a reputed mobster and associate of the late Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa was gunned down in the parking lot in 1983.
—Elizabeth Owens-Schiele, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2026
Three men were arrested Thursday for the execution-style killing of a father of four more than nine months after he was gunned down outside a Bronx smoke shop, cops said.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 29 May 2026
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“Gun down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gun%20down. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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