Phrasal Verbs
- 1(of a disease, etc.) to make someone unable to lead an active life; to make someone seriously ill; to kill someone He was struck down by cancer at the age of thirty.
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- 2to hit someone very hard, so that they fall to the ground
to decide that a law is illegal and should not apply The Supreme Court struck down a Texas state law. The law was struck down as unconstitutional.