gun down
Verb

gun down

  1. (transitive) To kill by means of a firearm, especially deliberately and in a brutal manner.
    • 1968, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,900328,00.html Spain: The Basque Rebellion]," Time, 6 Sep.:
      When Manzanas arrived home from work, the assailant gunned him down from ambush with a volley of pistol shots and escaped across the nearby border to France.



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