gun down

phrasal verb

gunned down; gunning down; guns down

: to shoot (someone) with a gun

He was gunned down in the street.

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Think about a judge reading that a colleague was gunned down in his own driveway by a disappointed litigant. —

Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025 Before his death, Dillard had planned to attend the funeral of his cousin, Shamel Miller, who was gunned down just before the Carroll Park shooting in the lobby of an apartment complex on Neptune Ave. —

Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2025 Shirani had been known to police since 1997, when a friend of his was gunned down at a movie theater in North Vancouver during a screening of the gangster flick Donnie Brasco. —

Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2025 Their team celebration is abruptly cut short by the sound of the group on the opposite track getting gunned down. —

Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for gun down