machine-gunned

verb

Definition of machine-gunnednext
past tense of machine-gun
as in killed

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  1. destroyed
  2. massacred
  3. dispatched
  4. felled
Verb
  • Initial assessments indicate at least seven structures destroyed and eight damaged, though further evaluations are pending, said Marrone, the Los Angeles County fire chief.
    Hanna Park, Robert Shackelford and Mary Gilbert, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Weather officials said the conditions were similar to those of early November, when dangerous winds whipped through Ventura County and fueled the Mountain fire, a nearly 20,000-acre inferno that destroyed 243 structures, including homes.
    Corina Knoll, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of destroyed
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  • One of her former students, Seung-Hui Cho, massacred 32 students and teachers on the campus in April 2007.
    Amber Hunt, The Enquirer, 10 Dec. 2024
  • In the assault, 1,200 people were massacred and 251 were taken hostage (roughly 100, both alive and dead, remain in captivity).
    The Editors, National Review, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of massacred
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  • There was also a specialized water unit with water rescue equipment dispatched to the scene, Albany Chief of Fire and Emergency Services Joseph Gregory told the Times Union.
    Dawn Sawyer, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
  • In a police report obtained by PEOPLE, deputies with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to Burrow’s Anderson Township home on Monday night after the mother of a woman who works for the athlete called 911.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of dispatched
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  • President Bashar al-Assad, and his late father and predecessor, Hafez, were omnipresent forces, glaring down from the many billboards, posters, and statues that were felled this week with all the exuberance, rage, and grief of the long-oppressed.
    Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
  • The rebuilding took 1,200 oak trees felled from forests across France to replace the framework of the roof and 1,000 construction workers.
    Riley Hoffman, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of felled
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machine gun

machine-gunned

machine-gunning

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