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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The two men who gunned down a church minister and her grandson inside her Miami Gardens home pleaded guilty on Wednesday — a week after one of the men rejected the same offer twice.
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Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
No mother should ever have to hear a body bag being unzipped after her child was gunned down in the street by police.
—CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026
The conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was close to Trump and his aides, was gunned down last year at a political event.
—Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2026
Police now believe that the men who shot and killed Hughes were members of a Central Richmond gang, deadset on avenging a comrade who was gunned down in Oakland 10 days earlier.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2026
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Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
No mother should ever have to hear a body bag being unzipped after her child was gunned down in the street by police.
—CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026
The conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was close to Trump and his aides, was gunned down last year at a political event.
—Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2026
Police now believe that the men who shot and killed Hughes were members of a Central Richmond gang, deadset on avenging a comrade who was gunned down in Oakland 10 days earlier.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2026
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“Gun down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gun%20down. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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