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STRIKE DOWN

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow

Example:

Lightning struck down the hikers

Synonyms:

cut down; drop; fell; strike down

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "strike down" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Cause:

come down; descend; fall; go down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "strike down"):

chop down (cut down)

poleax; poleaxe (fell with or as if with a poleax)

log; lumber (cut lumber, as in woods and forests)

cut (fell by sawing; hew)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They strike down the trees

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to die, especially suddenly

Example:

The disease struck down many young men in the village

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "strike down" is one way to...):

kill (deprive of life)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Declare null and void; make ineffective

Example:

strike down a law

Synonyms:

cancel; strike down

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "strike down" is one way to...):

adjudge; declare; hold (declare to be)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "strike down"):

annul; countermand; lift; overturn; repeal; rescind; reverse; revoke; vacate (cancel officially)

remit (release from (claims, debts, or taxes))

write off (cancel (a debt))

annul; avoid; invalidate; nullify; quash; void (declare invalid)

recall (make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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