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 Last month, a federal appeals court struck down Florida’s Stop WOKE Act as applied to colleges and universities. — David Wippman, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2026 Earlier this year, a federal judge struck down charges that might have brought the death penalty. — Brian Mann, NPR, 14 Aug. 2026 In a 2007 case, Roberts, writing for the majority, struck down a Seattle school district’s program of assigning pupils to classrooms with a goal of racial diversity. — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026 The ruling struck down 1971 and 2001 decisions that limited how much money political parties could spend in coordination with candidates. — Gerald Scorse, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026 But the Supreme Court on June 30 struck down that order, saying it couldn’t be reconciled with the 14th Amendment. — Chad De Guzman, Time, 7 Aug. 2026 The total is about 60% of the $166 billion in revenues collected from import taxes under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which were struck down by the Supreme Court in February. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026 That's more than half of the $166 billion owed to thousands of American businesses who paid the tariffs that were struck down by the Supreme Court. — Elizabeth Schulze, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026 How Amendment 4 fared In Jackson County, Amendment 4 was struck down by nearly 86% of voters, with 124,970 votes against the proposal, according to unofficial results from both the Jackson County and Kansas City election boards. — Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for struck down

Verb

Fortunately, Gorbachev would drop his objections to SDI in time for both men to sign a landmark treaty in 1987 that abolished all intermediate range nuclear arms in Europe and made the entire world safer.

— Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026
About three-quarters of the world’s nations have abolished the death penalty in law or practice.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of abolished

Verb

Prices collapsed after 1986, domestic production was increasingly exempted, and the tax was generating almost nothing by the time it was repealed.

— Tibor Besedeš, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2026
Parents in the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania drew national attention in June when yelling broke out at a board meeting after the district repealed a policy that had given families a choice to opt out.

— Stephanie Cook Broadhurst, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of repealed

Verb

Some of the laws have since been rolled back, with crime metrics showing improvement in recent months.

— Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 10 Aug. 2026
Each day, Americans see health protections rolled back, climate commitments abandoned, and more technologies that nobody asked for and nobody can opt out of.

— Anandita Sabherwal, Time, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of rolled back

Verb

But the South Carolina Supreme Court overturned the murder convictions this May and ordered a retrial, saying Colleton County’s then-clerk tainted the first trial with what the defense said was prejudicial comments to the jury.

— Devon M. Sayers, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Rosenwald family resources helped provide the facilities that made possible the accomplishments of the Tuskegee airmen, and supported NAACP legal efforts that ultimately overturned school segregation.

— Harold Pollack, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026