mow (down)

verb

Definition of mow (down)next
1
as in to slaughter
to kill on a large scale machine guns mowed down the advancing troops without mercy

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2
as in to down
to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall the crowd rushing in for the sale mowed down the poor clerks standing at the front entrance

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mow (down)
  1. slaughter
  2. down
  3. massacre
  4. drop
  5. knock down
  6. knock over
  7. fell
  8. floor
Verb
  • Which is not to say there aren’t currently Black women slaughtering the pop scene right now.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Fifteen people were slaughtered, including relatives of Maram, and some of her neighbors.
    — Mosab Abu Toha, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of slaughter
Verb
  • Parts of southern Alabama also were flooded, with officials in Mobile reporting downed trees and power lines.
    — AJC.com, AJC.com, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Weatherford downs Arlington Lamar Weatherford picked up a crucial 35-28 win over Arlington Lamar on Friday, moving into the District 3-6A playoff hunt.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of down
Verb
  • Earlier this summer, a gang had massacred at least 47 residents and kidnapped dozens more in the town of Kenscoff, on the main southern route out of the capital.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The people in Silo 17 were brutally massacred by the members of Silo 1.
    — Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of massacre
Verb
  • Fallon followed up by asking if McRae had dropped easter eggs hinting at the song’s release.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The remains of a man who was shot in the head and stuffed into a rusted barrel found on the shore of Lake Mead after the water level dropped were identified Thursday as an Arkansas man whose decades-old killing remains unsolved.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of drop
Verb
  • Special Agent 0 dove over the ropes to knock down all three of his opponents.
    — Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
  • This time, when they were knocked down, the Brewers didn’t stay down.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of knock down
Verb
  • Games like cornhole, ringer darts and Kubb — a lawn game involving teams tossing wooden blocks to knock over their opponents’ blocks — were set up on small turf patches.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Earlier that day, at a different campaign event about 90 miles east in Canfield, a man carrying two handguns, brass knuckles, and a Taser had barreled toward Acton while yelling her name, knocking over an elderly couple in the crowd.
    — Sarah Todd, STAT, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of knock over
Verb
  • Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said the 430 trees that were felled were not identified as hazardous or raising safety concerns.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Yet trees that took a millennium to grow can be felled in under an hour.
    — Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of fell
Verb
  • To manage mixed-flooring environments seamlessly, the robot incorporates Narwal’s CarpetFocus™ technology alongside the DualFlow anti-tangle system.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Flynn worked for his father-in-law’s flooring and furnishing business and made about $200,000 a year, Ashley’s sister testified.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of floor
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“Mow (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mow%20%28down%29. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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