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Strike down

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  1. 1
    To kill (someone or something); to cause to die suddenly.

    "God will strike you down!"

  2. 2
    cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow wordnet
  3. 3
    To knock down.

    "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; [...]."

  4. 4
    cause to die, especially suddenly wordnet
  5. 5
    To prostrate by illness.
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  1. 6
    declare null and void; make ineffective wordnet
  2. 7
    To invalidate (a law, statute etc.)

    "Later, in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down bans on interracial marriages remaining in 16 states, all in the old Confederacy and border states."

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