(Used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine.
1The trees along the banks immediately gave way to mown oat fields.
2Friendships sprang up like the grass and were mown down like it.
3He knew he was in danger of being mown down by Martinsson.
4Till, fattening the winds of the morning, an odour of new-mown hay
5Unable to get within range themselves, they were mown down in lines.
6The highways were not bordered by unsightly weeds but had been mown.
7Cycling was wiped out and pedestrians were mown down in their hundreds.
8Presently they passed through an iron gate into a field, already half-mown.
9Here a man might have mown acres of cowslips, pale but sweet.
10I catch a whiff of the freshly mown lawn in the garden.
11Weeds that are but mown, come up afterwards only the more vigorously.
12In the foreground was a haycock, where the grave grass had been mown.
13On the western front, an entire generation of young men was mown down.
14The days smelled of new-mown grass and the nights of honeysuckle.
15They can have their loaf o' warm bread, their new-mown hay.
16Whole streets of houses were mown down by the flaming scythe.
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