strike down
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strike down (third-person singular simple present strikes down, present participle striking down, simple past struck down, past participle struck down or stricken down)
- To kill (someone or something); to cause to die suddenly.
- God will strike you down!
- May the Lord strike down those sinners!
- 1977, George Lucas, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope:
- Darth Vader: Your powers are weak old man.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
- 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction:
- And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
- To knock down.
- 1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 158:
- Throughout the country there were: rupture of telecommunications, resulting amongst other things from telegraph wires and posts overweighted by snow or struck down by gales; [...].
- 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56:
- He was perched up top attending to the roof lantern when he was stuck down (literally) by a storm of "preposterous fury" (Bizarre Berkshire, D. Mackay 2011).
- To prostrate by illness.
- (law) To invalidate (a law, statute etc.)
- Antonym: uphold
- 2004 October 29, Peter Wong, “Interracial-marriage ban used in Measure 36 comparisons”, in Statesman Journal, volume 152, number 214, Salem, OR, page 2A:
- Later, in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down bans on interracial marriages remaining in 16 states, all in the old Confederacy and border states.
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(law) To invalidate (a law, statute etc.)