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machine-gunned

verb

past tense of machine-gun
as in killed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for machine-gunned
  1. killed
  2. destroyed
  3. massacred
  4. slaughtered
  5. dispatched
  6. felled
  7. butchered
Verb
  • Some earlier assassins expected it of themselves, canceling plots that would have killed bystanders.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • In Georgia, the execution of a man who killed two real estate agents had also been scheduled for Wednesday but was halted by a judge's late-night decision a day before he was scheduled to die.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of killed
Verb
  • Forces also destroyed a third vessel, the M/T Kylo near the Gulf of Oman.
    — Gabrielle Khoriaty, NBC news, 5 Sep. 2026
  • And, as Europe has felt more threatened by Russian incursions, a week ago NATO fighter jets destroyed a drone near Romania’s natural gas projects in the Black Sea.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of destroyed
Verb
  • The latest planeload landed last week, four days after armed gangs massacred dozens of people in the hills above Port-au-Prince.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The regime has demonstrated an extreme brutality toward the population, having massacred thousands of unarmed protestors this past January.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of massacred
Verb
  • Still, a currency collapse last year and high inflation triggered widespread unrest, and the regime slaughtered thousands in a brutal crackdown.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026
  • What to Read Providence, by Max Barry Seven years before the start of this novel, an alien species slaughtered everyone aboard a human spaceship—Earth’s first contact with extraterrestrials.
    — Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of slaughtered
Verb
  • Raczkowski, who was dispatched to the call, called the 911 dispatcher to order a cab for Reaves and to inquire about outstanding warrants.
    — Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Times may be affected because SEECOM is on a different radio frequency than QuadCom, requiring mutual aid to be dispatched through phone calls, Rynders said.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of dispatched
Verb
  • The goal came after Furuhashi got loose on a breakaway up the middle of the pitch, only to be felled by New England’s Will Sands in the center of the box, leaving referee Drew Fischer with an easy penalty call.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Mosaic terrazzo floors with a palm motif are nods to both Tiberius’s villas here and the Ethiopian palm that once stood like an icon outside the hotel, which was felled by a storm in the 1960s.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of felled
Verb
  • Cut marks and scrapes made by flint knives at consistent locations on the bones indicate local humans butchered many of them for meals.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2026
  • At the site, excavators found stone tools alongside bones of ancient elephants — and the recent paper, written by archaeologists and paleoanthropologists, suggests the remains were likely deliberately butchered by early human ancestors.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of butchered
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“Machine-gunned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machine-gunned. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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