to gun down
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7.4
- phrasal verb
- /ɡʌn daʊn/
- Offensive
- Now put your gun down.
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Watch on YouTubeHe was denied all of that because he was gunned down in the street.
- He was denied all of that because he was gunned down in the street.
- When first graders are gunned down, it would seem that Congress would do something.
- When you when you gunned down the rapper, you just gunned down five other employees income, right?
- But after his father gets gunned down, Michael decides he's got to take matters into his own hands.
- Abigail ran to her dad then, who then was gunned down, gunned down as well while using his body to shield little Abigail.
- And when you gun them down and you kill them now on video, right, Because nowadays, I don't know, I watch the news every night.
- The wild is where God is out there setting it off and Mother Nature's out there fucking twerking and people are eating BBQ and getting gunned down.
Examples
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Put your gun down!
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Put the gun down.
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Just put the gun down, man!
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Put the gun down, please?
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Put the gun down, please.
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There, put the gun down.
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Put the gun down!
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Put the guns down.
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Last night, my youngest son, Charlie... God bless his soul... was gunned down in cold blood right here in our own hotel.
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Jordan Davis, her seventeen-year-old son, was gunned down outside a Florida convenience store in 2012.
Synonyms
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1.8
Fire a gun at a person or animal to try to kill
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1.9
To fire a gun or hit something with a bullet
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3.2
To shoot someone or something with a weapon that fires bullets
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6.8
Cause someone to fall, become sick, or die suddenly
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8.8
To kill or hurt many people suddenly, usually with guns
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9.9
Shoot someone with a gun, often during violence or threats
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8.8
To kill someone as part of a plan, often by hired people
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to shoot and bring down' is directly built from the verb 'gun' (to fire a firearm) plus 'down' (to bring down/defeat), so the overall sense is compositional rather than idiomatic. This follows standard verb + particle patterns and would be predictable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent meanings.
Etymology
The verb gun down comes from a simple image: someone shoots with a gun and the other person falls down to the ground. That's why it means 'to shoot someone, often killing them'.