strike down

verb

1. To kill (someone or something); to cause to die suddenly.

   “God will strike you down!”

   “May the Lord strike down those sinners!”

2. 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; [...].”

   “He was perched up top attending to the roof lantern when he was stuck down (literally) by a storm of "preposterous fury" (Bizarre Berkshire, D. Mackay 2011).”

3. To prostrate by illness.
4. 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.”