Antonyms for mow down
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : moh |
Phonetic Transcription : moÊŠ |
- abet
- advance
- aid
- allow
- assist
- attract
- bear
- blow up
- break
- build
- clear
- close
- combine
- connect
- construct
- create
- elevate
- encourage
- erect
- establish
- expand
- facilitate
- fail
- fix
- float
- forward
- free
- give birth
- give up
- grow
- help
- incite
- increase
- inspirit
- institute
- join
- keep
- let go
- liberate
- lift
- lose
- make uneven
- mend
- open
- permit
- place
- plant
- promote
- push
- raise
- ratify
- release
- repair
- restore
- round
- save
- schedule
- set up
- sew
- strengthen
- support
- surrender
- uncompress
- unite
- win
- yield
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
- 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
- abase
- abate
- abolish
- abrade
- ambush
- amputate
- annihilate
- bar
- batter
- beach
- bear down
- beat
- beat down
- behead
- best
- bisect
- bite
- block
- blot out
- blow down
- bomb
- bowl over
- break down
- bring down
- bulldoze
- butcher
- capsize
- carve
- cast down
- cause to fall
- chine
- chip
- chisel
- cleave
- clip
- compress
- crash
- crop
- crush
- curtail
- cut
- cut down
- damage
- dash
- debase
- decimate
- decussate
- deflate
- delete
- demolish
- depress
- deracinate
- destroy
- dice
- discomfit
- dispatch
- dissect
- dissever
- divide
- do away with
- dock
- down
- drop
- drown
- dynamite
- efface
- eliminate
- entrap
- erase
- even out
- expunge
- exterminate
- extinguish
- extirpate
- facet
- fell
- finish off
- flatten
- flitch
- floor
- flush
- gash
- grade
- ground
- guillotine
- hack
- halt
- hash
- hew
- hinder
- impede
- injure
- intersect
- iron out
- kill
- knock down
- knock over
- KO
- lacerate
- land
- lay
- lay low
- lay open
- level
- lick
- liquidate
- lop
- lower
- mangle
- massacre
- mince
- mow
- mow down
- murder
- nick
- notch
- obliterate
- obstruct
- off
- outflank
- outmaneuver
- overpower
- overrun
- overthrow
- overturn
- overwhelm
- parry
- part
- penetrate
- perforate
- pierce
- plane
- plaster
- prevail over
- prevent
- prostrate
- prune
- pull down
- puncture
- purge
- quarter
- quell
- rabbet
- raze
- reap
- reduce
- remove
- rend
- repel
- repress
- repulse
- rip
- rive
- roll
- roll back
- root out
- rout
- route
- rub out
- ruin
- saber
- sack
- saw
- scarify
- scatter
- scissor
- score
- scratch
- scratch out
- scrub
- scythe
- separate
- sever
- shave
- shear
- shipwreck
- shoot
- shoot down
- sickle
- sink
- skive
- slash
- slaughter
- slay
- slice
- slit
- sliver
- smash
- smooth
- snip
- spill
- split
- spread out
- squash
- stamp out
- straighten
- strand
- strike down
- strike out
- subdue
- subjugate
- subvert
- sunder
- suppress
- surmount
- swamp
- take out
- tear down
- tear up
- throw down
- topple
- torpedo
- total
- trample
- trash
- tumble
- unbuild
- undermine
- undo
- unmake
- unroot
- uproot
- upset
- vanquish
- wash out
- waste
- weed out
- whip
- wipe out
- wound
- wrack
- wreck
- zap
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