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 Sacramento County Coroner’s Office has identified the woman gunned down by her stalker outside a Howe Avenue restaurant as Shalini Thakur, 38, officials announced Thursday. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Some of us sat on benches in the center of the dorm, watching ESPN highlights of Houston Texan games; others watched ABC News on another TV, where an ICE agent gunned down a white woman in her SUV. — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026

Locals still had to do shopping in the nearby city of Uruapan, where Mayor Carlos Manzo was gunned down by a cartel operative last year, and work on their farms in the mountains. — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Detectives arrested a man Tuesday who’s accused of gunning down another man outside a Miami Gardens convenience store almost two years ago. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for gun down

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