gun down


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Verb1.gun down - strike down or shoot down
shoot, pip, hit - hit with a missile from a weapon
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Come away, and take your horse, that we may shoot the creature." He heard me, and cried out, "No shoot, no shoot; stand still, and you get much laugh:" and as the nimble creature ran two feet for the bear's one, he turned on a sudden on one side of us, and seeing a great oak-tree fit for his purpose, he beckoned to us to follow; and doubling his pace, he got nimbly up the tree, laying his gun down upon the ground, at about five or six yards from the bottom of the tree.
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They gun down him when he put resistance to their bid to snatch his bicycle.
Bicycle snatchers kill man
By ATTOCK KHURD, November 19, 2010 (Frontier Star): Unidentified person gun down special branch officer Rawalpindi Ghulam Habib here on Friday.
Unidentified person gun down special branch officer Rawalpindi Ghulam Habib

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