strike down

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strike down

verb strikes down · striking down · struck down · stricken down

To kill (someone or something); to cause to die suddenly. God will strike you down!
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; [...].
To prostrate by illness.
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.
Opposite: uphold

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verb to invalidate (a law, statute, etc.)

Deutsch	aufheben

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@misc{strike_down_2026,
  title = {strike down},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/strike%20down},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}