Synonyms of mowed (down)

mowed (down)

verb

past tense of mow (down)

1

as in slaughtered

to kill on a large scale

machine guns mowed down the advancing troops without mercy

Synonyms & Similar Words

• slaughtered
• massacred
• murdered
• assassinated
• executed
• dispatched
• destroyed
• slew
• wiped out
• butchered
• did in
• smote
• blotted out
• demolished
• decimated
• eradicated
• wasted
• exterminated
• felled
• devastated
• snuffed
• annihilated
• croaked

2

as in downed

to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall

the crowd rushing in for the sale mowed down the poor clerks standing at the front entrance

Synonyms & Similar Words

• downed
• bowled (down or over)
• dropped
• knocked down
• knocked over
• hit
• levelled
• floored
• slammed
• slapped
• leveled
• knocked out
• smacked
• toppled
• punched
• banged
• prostrated
• felled
• pounded
• threw down
• poked
• thumped
• KO'd
• pasted
• whacked
• overthrew
• hammered
• jabbed
• swiped
• swatted
• bashed
• socked
• smote
• slugged
• belted
• clobbered
• kayoed
• bludgeoned
• walloped
• whaled
• slogged
• thwacked