strike down   (TTS Sound)

The verb strike down has 3 senses

• cancel, strike down -- (declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law")


• strike down -- (cause to die, especially suddenly; "The disease struck down many young men in the village")


• fell, drop, strike down, cut down -- (cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers")