Antonyms for mow down


Grammar : Verb
Spell : moh
Phonetic Transcription : moÊŠ


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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