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mow (down)

verb

Definition of mow (down)

as in to slaughter

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

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as in to down

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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Mom accused of slaughtering husband, toddler at Great Wolf Lodge could face death penalty.

— , FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Jason, who supposedly witnessed his mother’s killing, took up the blade, slaughtering his way through several bloody sequels.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of slaughter

Verb

The combination of Chance downing teams inside the 10-yard line combined with a suffocating defense could be a recipe for success for TCU in the final half of the season.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Oct. 2026
With night set to fall, many in the area were without power due to outages planned by Southern California Edison in hopes of preventing power lines downed by the winds from sparking fires.

— Tom Tapp, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of down

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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

Definition of massacre

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Fallon followed up by asking if McRae had dropped easter eggs hinting at the song’s release.

— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2026
The remains of a man who was shot in the head and stuffed into a rusted barrel found on the shore of Lake Mead after the water level dropped were identified Thursday as an Arkansas man whose decades-old killing remains unsolved.

— CBS News, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of drop

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Games like cornhole, ringer darts and Kubb — a lawn game involving teams tossing wooden blocks to knock over their opponents’ blocks — were set up on small turf patches.

— Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2026
Earlier that day, at a different campaign event about 90 miles east in Canfield, a man carrying two handguns, brass knuckles, and a Taser had barreled toward Acton while yelling her name, knocking over an elderly couple in the crowd.

— Sarah Todd, STAT, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of knock over

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Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said the 430 trees that were felled were not identified as hazardous or raising safety concerns.

— Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
Yet trees that took a millennium to grow can be felled in under an hour.

— Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of fell

Verb

To manage mixed-flooring environments seamlessly, the robot incorporates Narwal’s CarpetFocus™ technology alongside the DualFlow anti-tangle system.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 Sep. 2026
Flynn worked for his father-in-law’s flooring and furnishing business and made about $200,000 a year, Ashley’s sister testified.

— Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026

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