gun down

phrasal 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

Officials have released eerie surveillance footage capturing a ‘person of interest’ in the unsolved murders of an Ohio dentist and his wife, who were gunned down inside their home. —Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026

Only two of the 376 officers from local, state and federal agencies on the scene have been charged — a fact that haunts Velma Lisa Duran, whose sister, Irma Garcia, was one of the teachers gunned down. —Jim Vertuno, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2026

Or bears, just trying to get by, gunned down in their remaining woods patches in overbuilt Florida. —Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2026

Those victims include 15-year-old Eric Aitken, who was gunned down in a building in NYCHA’s Eastchester Gardens in the Bronx on Saturday. —Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 1 Jan. 2026

Rhymes for gun down

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