mow down

• Verbo frasal que significa matar o derribar a un gran número de personas u objetos, a menudo de forma violenta o indiscriminada, como al disparar o atropellar.

A phrasal verb meaning to kill or knock down a large number of people or things, often violently or indiscriminately.

incontable · transitivo · phrasal, separable

1. Kill or injure violentlyinformal

   To kill or injure many people or animals in a violent, often vehicular, attack.

   masacrar

   • The driver lost control and mowed down several pedestrians.
   • The soldiers were mowed down by machine-gun fire.
   • A truck mowed down a group of protesters.

   Sinónimosannihilatebutchercut downgun downmassacrerun downrun overshoot downslaughterwipe out

   Antónimospreserveprotectsavespare

2. Cut down grass or cropsinformal

   To cut down grass, grain, or other plants with a scythe or machine.

   Segar o cortar hierba o cultivos

   • The farmer mowed down the wheat field with a combine harvester.
   • He mowed down the overgrown grass in the backyard.
   • They mowed down the hay before the rain started.

   Sinónimoscutmowreapscythetrim

Verbo basemow