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Strike down

verb

Declare null and void; make ineffective. Synonym: cancel. "Strike down a law"

Cause to die, especially suddenly.

Cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow. Synonyms: cut down, drop, fell. "Lightning struck down the hikers"

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"Strike down" Quotes from Famous Books

... of many dead," Travis reminded him. Had the age-old Apache fear of the dead been activated by the Redax into an acute phobia—to strike down such a ...

— The Defiant Agents • Andre Alice Norton

... saw a man-at-arms strike down a prisoner. She leaped from her horse, and laid the wounded Englishman's head on her breast, consoling him, and bade a priest come and hear his confession. From Jargeau the Maid rode back to Orleans, where the people could not look on her ...

— The Junior Classics • Various

... Man's Name was Massey, who was born about Leeds in Yorkshire. He ask'd, from whence we came? We told him. Then he ask'd again, Whether we wanted any thing that he had? telling us, we should be welcome to it. We accepted of Two Wheaten Biskets, and a little Ammunition. He advised us, by all means, to strike down the Country for Ronoack, and not think of Virginia, because of the Sinnagers, of whom they were afraid, tho' so well arm'd, and numerous. They persuaded us also, to call upon one Enoe Will, as we went to Adshusheer, for that he would conduct us safe among the English, giving him ...

— A New Voyage to Carolina • John Lawson

... cannot ask America to continue to face such needless hardships. It is time for courageous action, and the Recovery Bill gives us the means to conquer unemployment with exactly the same weapon that we have used to strike down child labor. ...

— The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

... stand here like fat oxen waiting for the butcher's knife; if ye are men, follow me! strike down yon sentinel, and gain the mountain passes, and there do bloody work as did your sires at old Thermopylae! Is Sparta dead? Is the old Grecian spirit frozen in your veins, that you do crouch and cower like base-born slaves beneath your master's lash? O comrades! ...

— Elson Grammer School Literature, Book Four. • William H. Elson and Christine Keck

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