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Verb: mow down  maw dawn
  1. Kill a large number of people indiscriminately
    "The Hutus mowed down the Tutsis in Rwanda"
    - massacre, slaughter

Derived forms: mown down, mowing down, mowed down, mows down

Type of: kill

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