mow down

1. 1.

   kill a large number of people indiscriminately

   “The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda”

   Synonymsmassacreslaughter

   Broaderkill

Questions about mow down

What does mow down mean?

mow down means "kill a large number of people indiscriminately".

What is another word for mow down?

Close synonyms include massacre, slaughter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mow down a common word?

mow down is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.