strike down
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.63 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To knock down.
verb
To invalidate (a law, statute etc.)
Example Sentences
- "God will strike you down!"
- "May the Lord strike down those sinners!"
- "Darth Vader: Your powers are weak old man. Obi-Wan Kenobi: You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
- "And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."
- "Throughout the country there were: rupture of telecommunications, resulting amongst other things from telegraph wires and posts overweighted by snow or struck down by gales; [...]."
- "He was perched up top attending to the roof lantern when he was stuck down (literally) by a storm of "preposterous fury" (Bizarre Berkshire, D. Mackay 2011)."