Strike down

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).

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.