gun down
phrasal verb
gunned down; gunning down; guns down
: to shoot (someone) with a gun
He was gunned down in the street.
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Entire crowds gunned down at distribution points.
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Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Praying with your feet means to move, to advance, to take, literally, steps to make sure innocents are not gunned down in church or school by a madman.
—Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 6 Sep. 2025
Eric didn’t deserve to be gunned down, and the system failed him — the system that felt that juveniles needed to be coddled.
—Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Nearly a decade later, Ellie Nesler gunned down a man in a Northern California courtroom who was accused of molesting her young son.
—Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
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Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Praying with your feet means to move, to advance, to take, literally, steps to make sure innocents are not gunned down in church or school by a madman.
—Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 6 Sep. 2025
Eric didn’t deserve to be gunned down, and the system failed him — the system that felt that juveniles needed to be coddled.
—Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Nearly a decade later, Ellie Nesler gunned down a man in a Northern California courtroom who was accused of molesting her young son.
—Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gun down
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“Gun down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gun%20down. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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