mow down

• Verbe à particule signifiant tuer ou renverser un grand nombre de personnes ou d'objets, souvent de manière brutale ou aveugle.

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

indénombrable · transitif · phrasal, séparable

1. Kill or injure violentlyinformal

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

   faucher

   • 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.

   Synonymesannihilatebutchercut downgun downmassacrerun downrun overshoot downslaughterwipe out

   Antonymespreserveprotectsavespare

2. Cut down grass or cropsinformal

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

   Faucher, couper (herbe, céréales)

   • 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.

   Synonymescutmowreapscythetrim

Verbe de basemow