gun down

• Verbo frasal que significa atirar em alguém, geralmente com arma de fogo, deixando a pessoa gravemente ferida ou morta; geralmente sugere uma ação violenta e deliberada.

A phrasal verb meaning to shoot someone, especially with a gun, often resulting in serious injury or death.

incontável · transitivo · phrasal, separável

1. Shoot and killinformal

   To shoot someone with a gun, often resulting in death.

   Matar a tiros

   • The police officer was gunned down in the line of duty.
   • The gang members gunned down their rivals in the street.
   • He was gunned down outside his home.

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2. Shoot and injureinformal

   To shoot someone with a gun, causing injury.

   Baleado

   • The robber gunned down the security guard but he survived.
   • The soldiers gunned down several insurgents during the raid.
   • He was gunned down but managed to crawl to safety.

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