STRUCK DOWN Synonyms: 81 Similar and Opposite Words

struck down

verb

past tense of strike down

as in abolished

to put an end to by formal action a law that was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court as unconstitutional

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Recent Examples of struck down Sally and Gillian come from a long line of witches and have lived in a resplendent Massachusetts home with their aunts Frances (Stockard Channing) and Jet (Dianne Wiest) ever since a curse struck down their father and led to their mother’s suicide. — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026 The current attorney general refused to appeal a court decision that struck down a 1987 state law prohibiting citizens from openly carrying firearms in public. — José Javier Rodríguez, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026 After Texas held its 1996 primaries, a federal court struck down several congressional districts. — Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026 More than $100 billion has been refunded due to a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that struck down many of the administration's tariffs. — Joe Walsh, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026 That was more than half of the $166 billion owed to thousands of American businesses who paid the tariffs that were later struck down by the Supreme Court. — Fritz Farrow, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026 The Supreme Court recently struck down part of the Voting Rights Act, unleashing a wave of redistricting battles that threaten to eliminate Black-majority congressional districts particularly in the Southern states. — Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 In horizontal-review mode, the Court has struck down laws limiting slavery and child labor, establishing income taxes and minimum wages, and restricting corporations from tilting elections or firing workers for union activity. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 Two years later, the Storting, the supreme legislature of Norway, struck down the article on coronation in the Constitution. — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 28 Aug. 2026

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The colonial latifundium, instead of being abolished by independence, was strengthened, leading to any number of national ills.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
Norway does not have a coronation for the monarch, as the ceremonies were abolished by parliament in 1908.

— Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of abolished

Verb

None of those leaps repealed the trade-off between cost, weight and strength, but each one moved the curve, leading to today when a rider can buy a combination of light and strong that no amount of money could have purchased a generation ago.

— Colby Proffitt, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
By contrast, Congress repealed federal restrictions and taxes on brewing beer for personal use in 1978.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of repealed

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The district voluntarily rolled back its levy rate in 2023 when property tax bills spiked countywide during the troubled 2023 property tax assessment cycle.

— Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026
Many corporations and college campuses rolled back their diversity, equity and inclusion practices.

— Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of rolled back

Verb

Unlike Bryce Underwood’s final pass, the MAC’s Hail Mary to get the outcome overturned was destined to fail.

— Austin Meek, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Police say five people have died and 40 others were injured after a Dutch tour bus slammed into a roadside crash barrier and overturned in eastern Switzerland.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2026