strikesomeonedown
phrasal verbwithstrikeverbuk/straɪk/us/straɪk/struck|struck
If someone isstruckdown, theydiesuddenlyorstarttosufferfrom aseriousillness:
It's atragedythat theseyoungpeoplewerestruckdown intheirprime.
He wasstruckdownbypoliowhen he was ateenager.
Death and dying
- be as dead as a doornailidiom
- bereave
- bite
- bleed out
- buy the farmidiom
- cadaveric
- death toll
- depart this lifeidiom
- die off
- drown
- ghost
- morbid
- necrophiliac
- perch
- predecease
- push
- remains
- shuffle off this mortal coilidiom
- starvation
- watery graveidiom
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Being & falling ill