Strike Down

Definition: Strike Down

Strike Down

Verb

1. Declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law".

2. Cause to die, especially suddenly; "The disease struck down many young men in the village".

3. Cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Strike Down

Crosswords: Strike Down

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

hedh poshtë me goditje. (various references)

Arabic 

‏خبط (bang, knock). (various references)

Bulgarian 

убивам (account for, assassinate, dispose of, do in, end, finish, fix, kill, lay out, liquidate, murder, pip, polish off, pop off, pot, push off, put away, put to death, quench, remove, rub out, shoot up, slay, snuff out, starve, wipe out, zap), поразявам (amaze, astound, attaint, defeat, destroy, dismay, flabbergast, impress, overwhelm, plague, smite, stare, wow), покосявам (cut down, decimate, mow down), повалям (blow down, bring down, deck, drop, fell, flatten, fling down, floor, hew, knock down, lay low, lay out, level, overthrow, pole-ax, precipitate, prostrate, run down, shoot down, stretch out, strike, throw down, tumble down, zap). (various references)

Czech

srazit (bring down, deflate, precipitate, send down, slash), porazit (bear down, beat, best, butcher, chop down, conquer, cut down, defeat, fell, hack down, hew, hew down, kill, knock down, overthrow, overturn, run down, smite, stick, stump, tumble, vanquish). (various references)

Finnish

kaataa (fell, knock down, overturn, pour, scatter, shed, spill, upset). (various references)

French

terrasser (strike), abattre (still, strike in). (various references)

German

erschlagen (butcher, kill, slain, slaughter, slay, strike dead, to strike dead). (various references)

Greek 

χτυπώ (beat, beat up, beaten, chime, clank, clap, clink, clip, clobber, hit, hurt, jangle, knock, punish, slosh, smite, spank, strike, swat, thrash, thump). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחבוט (bang, beat off, flail, knock, mill, pound, smack, stroke, swat, swipe, thrash, thrust down, thump, thwack). (various references)

Hungarian

lever (down, strike off, subdue, to beat down, to drive in a pile, to knock off, to overwhelm, to pull down, to put down, to repress, to rout, to unman), leüt (knock down, knock off, strike off, to fell, to knock down, to knock off, to spike, to top off). (various references)

Italian

colpire (affect, bang, beat, buffet, bump, catch, clout, damage, dazzle, hit, jab, knock, Lam, pelt, poke, pound, punch, rap, run across, shock, shoot, slap, smite, sock, spear, strike, swat, swipe, thwack). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Romanian

doborî (beat, bring, bring low, cut down, fell, floor, grass, ground, hew down, knock down, overcome, overpower, prostrate, smash, tip). (various references)

Russian 

парировать удар (strike up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pripeći (be hot, burn), odbiti udarac, oboriti nekoga. (various references)

Swedish

slå ner (beat down, cast down, clobber, flatten, knock down, lay out, swoop down). (various references)

Turkish

devirmek (capsize, chop down, crumple, cut down, defeat, down, give smth. a tip, knock, knock back, knock down, knock over, overset, overthrow, overturn, quaff off, revolutionize, shift, subvert, take down, tilt, tip, topple, topple over, upset), aciz bırakmak (incapacitate). (various references)

Ukrainian

звалити (bring down, knock over, lay low, overthrow, push down, put). (various references)

configatur, confige, configent, configere, configet, configitis, configitur, confixerint, confixerunt, confiximus, confixus, perculsi, praemo, praemo, premo, premo, premo pressi pressum, prosternamur, prosternat, prosternebaris, prosternens, prosternent, prosternerem, prosternerent, prosterneret, prosternite, prostrata, prostrati, prostratis, prostratorum, prostratus, prostraverunt, prostravi, prostravit. (various references)

gefyllan. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: dorkiest, downiest, instroke, networks, rowdiest, tinworks, wonkiest, wordiest.

-3 letters: dineros, doeskin, downers, downier, dowries, editors, indorse, kindest, knowers, network, norites, oestrin, ordines, orients, redskin, reknits, rewinds, rodents, rosined, rowdies, skirted, snorted, snowier, sordine, sortied, steroid, stinker, stonier, storied, stroked, strowed, swinked, tinders, tinkers, tinwork, townies, triodes, twiners, weirdos, winders, winkers, winters, wonders.