The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SMOTE which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
Struck down crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SMOTE | 74 % | 5 |
| SLEW | 13 % | 4 |
| SLAIN | 9 % | 5 |
| SMIT | 4 % | 4 |
Why may SMOTE be the right solution?
The word "smote" is the past tense of the verb "smite," which means to strike or hit forcefully. Therefore, "smote" is the appropriate answer to the clue "struck down."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Struck down
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- strike down
- stricken
- struck out
- defeated
- striking
- strucken
- strike on
- shot down
- felled
- vanquished
- overthrown
- cast down
Crossword Answer definitions
SMOTE verb- To hit, to strike.
- To strike down or kill with godly force.
- To injure with divine power.
- To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
- To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
- (now only in passive) To strike with love or infatuation.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SMOTE
- Did in
- Plague
- Struck down
- Dealt a heavy blow
- Belted, back in the day
- Pummelled, Biblically
- Clobbered
- Clobbered, biblically
- Hit
- Archaically bonked
More clues leading to the result SLEW
- Bumped off
- Did in
- Dispatched a dragon
- Multitude
- Triple Crown winner Seattle __
- Whole bunch
- Bunch
- Killed the dragon
- 1977 derby winner, Seattle ____
- Murdered
More clues leading to the result SLAIN
- Dead, as a dragon
- Killed, as in a Tolkien story
- Done in
- Iced
- Dispatched
- Done in, as a dragon
- Whacked, as they say
- Vanquished
- Dispatched, as a dragon
- Helpless with laughter