strike down

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verb

1. cause to die, especially suddenly
- The disease struck down many young men in the village
• Hypernyms:
kill
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
2. cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- strike down a tree
- Lightning struck down the hikers
• Syn:
fell, drop, cut down
• Derivationally related forms:
feller (for: fell), fell (for: fell)
• Hypernyms:
cut
• Hyponyms:
chop down, poleax, poleaxe, log, lumber, cut
• Cause:
descend, fall, go down, come down
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
- They strike down the trees
3. declare null and void;
make ineffective
- Cancel the election results
- strike down a law
• Syn:
cancel
• Derivationally related forms:
cancellation (for: cancel), cancel (for: cancel)
• Hypernyms:
declare, adjudge, hold
• Hyponyms:
revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse,
repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate, remit, write off,
invalidate, quash, void, avoid, nullify, recall
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something