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strike down en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. To kill (someone or something); to cause to die suddenly.
    • May the Lord strike down those sinners!
    • 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. 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction:
    • God will strike you down!
    • 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. 1977, George Lucas, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope:
  2. To knock down.
    • 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; [...]. 1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 158:
    • 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). 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56:
  3. To prostrate by illness.
  4. To invalidate (a law, statute etc.)
    • 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. 2004 October 29, Peter Wong, “Interracial-marriage ban used in Measure 36 comparisons”, in Statesman Journal, volume 152, number 214, Salem, OR, page 2A:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
stricken down Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part archaic, rare lexicographic
striking down Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
struck down Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
struck down Tense=Past lexicographic
strikes down Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Antonyms

uphold

Relateds

strike out · strike through

Translations (9)

pl powalić (to knock down) · de aufheben (to invalidate (a law, statute, etc.)) · pl unieważniać (to invalidate (a law, statute, etc.)) · pl zwalać z nóg (to prostrate by illness) · pl unieważnić (to invalidate (a law, statute, etc.)) · pl zabijać (to kill) · pl zabić (to kill) · pl powalać (to knock down) · pl zwalić z nóg (to prostrate by illness)