mow

Universal Words verb (mowed, mown or mowed) to cut grass, etc. using a machine or tool with a special blade or blades: [VN] I mow the lawn every week in summer. * the smell of new-mown hay [also V] PHRASALVERBS mow sb<->down to kill sb using a vehicle or a gun, especially when several people are all killed at the same time: The gunmen opened fire, mowing down at least seven people.