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mowed (down)

verb

past tense of mow (down)

as in slaughtered

to kill on a large scale machine guns mowed down the advancing troops without mercy

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as in downed

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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In one of the many scary dream sequences David Naughton has while becoming a werewolf, his Jewish family back home is slaughtered by Nazi monsters.

— Vulture Editors, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
By chance, King was served a video of an auction in Bowie, Texas, where donkeys were being sold to be slaughtered for their hide, which is used to make a popular Chinese medicine called ejiao.

— Brayden Garcia October 28, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Oct. 2026

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The crisis capped a week of severe weather in which rain swamped dozens of homes in Utah and tornadoes blew off roofs, knocked trees onto houses and downed power lines in Arizona.

— MEAD GRUVER, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
Even so, the government abruptly downed hundreds of trees on the course with little warning earlier this month, which critics worry was a pretext for beginning renovations.

— Rachel Treisman, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026

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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

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Phillips caught a bad break when her approach to the green hit a tree branch on its upward flight and dropped 20 yards short of the green.

— Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
This allows soldiers to retain the option of using an unexpended round as conventional mortar ammunition if it is not dropped or mission requirements change.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026

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Seeman appeared to curse at Arizona Cardinals tight end Trey McBride, and Hill confronted Minnesota Vikings linebacker Eric Wilson after being inadvertently knocked down.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
When Conrad was knocked down at a practice session, Belmonte ran to help him while Manolete lured the animal away.

— Stephen Bates, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026

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