mow down

phrasal verb

mowed down; mowed down or mown down; mowing down; mows down

informal

: to kill or knock down (a person or many people) in a sudden and violent way

The soldiers were mowed down by machine guns.

The car mowed down four pedestrians.

Examples of mow down in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The wife of a 23-year-old Lyft driver fatally struck by a car in Queens was seated in the passenger seat of the vehicle that mowed down her husband — just days after the two had happily attended a wedding together, the victim’s shocked family told the Daily News in an exclusive interview. —Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 2 Aug. 2025

Holst certainly had some fun, spending much of the game mowing down McHenry batters. —Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025

No current starter is mowing down hitters like Garrett Crochet. —Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 25 July 2025

Joel mowed down the rebel Fireflies to save unconscious Ellie, whose brain, immune to infection, was about to be lethally harvested for a humanity-saving zombie cure. —Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025

Rhymes for mow down

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