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Definition of Mow down
1. Verb. Kill a large number of people indiscriminately. "They want to mow down the prisoners "; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
Definition of Mow down
1. Verb. (transitive) To cut down, especially in large numbers. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive figuratively by extension) To kill or slaughter, or to injure by knocking down, especially in large numbers and in a ruthless manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mow Down
Literary usage of Mow down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary by James Curtis Hepburn (1886)
"RU + =\- y -b A- $fe <\k 4-v- To mow down, to cut down with a sweep.
NAOI-HARAI,-AU -j-^y\57 ... *-v- To mow down, cut down. NAOI-TATE,-RB + ^St7~fl- ^Usi. ..."
2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"To cut or mow down. ... to cut or mow down grass in meadows hayed (laid in for
hay), was a customary service for the lord by his inferior tenants. ..."
3. The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy (1905)
"But, because the owners of the meadow did not notice, among the other injunctions
of the good husbandman, the injunction that they should not mow down the ..."
4. Works by Leo Tolstoy (1905)
"... that they should not mow down the weeds, but should tear them out, or because
they did not understand him, or because, for reasons of their own, ..."
5. A Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary by James Curtis Hepburn (1886)
"RU + =\- y -b A- $fe <\k 4-v- To mow down, to cut down with a sweep.
NAOI-HARAI,-AU -j-^y\57 ... *-v- To mow down, cut down. NAOI-TATE,-RB + ^St7~fl- ^Usi. ..."
6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"To cut or mow down. ... to cut or mow down grass in meadows hayed (laid in for
hay), was a customary service for the lord by his inferior tenants. ..."
7. The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy (1905)
"But, because the owners of the meadow did not notice, among the other injunctions
of the good husbandman, the injunction that they should not mow down the ..."
8. Works by Leo Tolstoy (1905)
"... that they should not mow down the weeds, but should tear them out, or because
they did not understand him, or because, for reasons of their own, ..."
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