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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In a 2020 report, the United Nations said that the crackdown largely targeted young men in poor and urban areas, many who were gunned down in the street. Adam Hancock, NPR, 11 Mar. 2025 His teenage nephew was gunned down by police in a dark riverside alley during an anti-drug operation in suburban Caloocan city in August 2017. Jim Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025 Just this week the FBI agent in charge of the Budapest office gunned down a corrupt Slovakian chief of police and got off scot-free without even causing an international incident! Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2025 Their photograph is in the possession of her boss, Raymond King (J.K. Simmons), when he is gunned down in the baffling but logistically exciting opening set piece. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gun down

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“Gun down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gun%20down. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.

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