strike down

1. 1.

   declare null and void; make ineffective

   “Cancel the election results”

   “strike down a law”

   Synonymscancel

   Broaderdeclare

   Narrowerrevokeremitwrite offinvalidaterecall
2. 2.

   cause to die, especially suddenly

   “The disease struck down many young men in the village”

   Broaderkill
3. 3.

   cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow

   “strike down a tree”

   “Lightning struck down the hikers”

   Synonymsfelldropcut down

   Broadercut

   Narrowerchop downpoleaxlogcut

Questions about strike down

What does strike down mean?

strike down means "declare null and void; make ineffective". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for strike down?

Close synonyms include cancel, fell, drop, cut down. 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 strike down a common word?

strike down is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.