Antonyms for mow down

Grammar : Verb

Spell : moh

Phonetic Transcription : moʊ

Definition of mow down

Origin : Old English mawan "to mow" (class VII strong verb; past tense meow, past participle mawen), from Proto-Germanic *mæanan (cf. Middle Low German maeyen, Dutch maaien, Old High German maen, German mähen "to mow," Old English mæd "meadow"), from PIE root *me- "to mow, to cut down grass or grain with a sickle or scythe" (cf. poetic Greek amao, Latin metere "to reap, mow, crop," Italian mietere, Old Irish meithleorai "reapers," Welsh medi). Related: Mowed; mown; mowing.

As in raze : verb flatten, knock down; wipe out
As in cut down : verb fell
As in bring down : verb reduce or hurt
As in cut : verb sever, chop with sharp instrument; incise
As in defeat : verb conquer in military manner
As in eradicate : verb destroy; remove
As in fell : verb chop down
As in flatten : verb level out
As in ground : verb restrict; drop in place

Example sentences :

I mow down all before me, and cover all with my scarlet robe.
Extract from : « Paris and its Story » by Thomas Okey

They will know when our power is complete and we begin to mow down their cursed grass.
Extract from : « Mother » by Maksim Gorky

It is far more humane to mow down the insurgents with grape and canister.
Extract from : « Joseph Bonaparte » by John S. C. Abbott

If you've made up your mind to mow down everything, don't spare your own legs.
Extract from : « Fathers and Children » by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

One can mow down a lot of cases, listen to scores of grievances in the open, under a good spreading tree.
Extract from : « A Bottle in the Smoke » by Milne Rae

The flames had no effect on the Annihilator, whereas the electric cannons continued to mow down the Martians.
Extract from : « Through Space to Mars » by Roy Rockwood

Thanks to his white slaves, he could cut and mow down and gather in his wood, hay, and grain.
Extract from : « Sons of the Soil » by Honore de Balzac

We watched it wallow into deep ditches and out, splash through a brook, and mow down trees more'n a foot thick.
Extract from : « The House of Torchy » by Sewell Ford

June arrived, and it was time to mow down grass to make into hay for the winter, and Jacob had two scythes.
Extract from : « The Children of the New Forest » by Captain Marryat

The weeds have been allowed to grow too long, and now we must mow down the crop, which threatens to choke the good seed!
Extract from : « Quintus Claudius, Volume 2 of 2 » by Ernst Eckstein

Synonyms for mow down

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