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Mow down   /moʊ daʊn/   Listen
Mow down

verb
1.
Kill a large number of people indiscriminately.  Synonyms: massacre, slaughter.






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"Mow down" Quotes from Famous Books



... line with the rank in rear in order to regain support. But the lines in the rear give way to the retreat of the first. If the withdrawal has a certain duration, terror comes as a result of the blows which drive back and mow down the first line. If, to make room for those pushed back, the last lines turn their backs, there is small chance that they will face the front again. Space has tempted them. They will not return to ...
— Battle Studies • Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq

... liabilities? The tutor learned enough to know that Pen was poor, that he had spent a handsome, almost a magnificent allowance, and had raised around him such a fine crop of debts, as it would be very hard work for any man to mow down; for there is no plant that grows so rapidly when ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray



Words linked to "Mow down" :   kill, slaughter



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