| 词组 | mow |
| 释义 | mow [mowed, mown or mowed, mowing] mow down 1. mow down sb/sth • mow sb/sth down usually passive to kill someone by firing a lot of bullets at them: ▪ The men were mown down as soon as they emerged from their trenches. ▪ Captain Westmacott was mown down in a hail of M-60 machine-gun bullets. 2. mow sb down • mow down sb BrE to kill or seriously injure someone by driving into them in a vehicle either deliberately or because you are not controlling the vehicle properly: ▪ Lewin, in a stolen sports car, mowed down Daniel Davies, nine, and Adele Thompson, twelve, as they walked home from school. ▪ The elderly couple were mown down yards from their home by 47-year-old Jill Gunns, who is believed to have had a row with her boyfriend. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑run over, ↑knock down |
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