MOW (SOMEBODY) DOWN


Meaning of MOW (SOMEBODY) DOWN in English

mow somebody ↔ down phrasal verb informal ( see also ↑ mow )

1 . to kill large numbers of people at the same time, especially by shooting them:

The soldiers were mown down by machine gun fire.

2 . to kill someone by driving into them fast:

He was sentenced to two years in prison for mowing down a nine-year old girl.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.