Idiom
ride down
Meaning
To cause (a horse) to fall when riding.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The reckless rider did not mean to ride down his horse.”
“During the intense cavalry training, the soldier accidentally rode down his horse on the muddy field.”
“The exhausted animal collapsed after the soldier, in his desperate haste to reach the front lines, rode down his horse on the rocky mountain path.”
Examples
simple
“The reckless rider did not mean to ride down his horse.”
contextual
“During the intense cavalry training, the soldier accidentally rode down his horse on the muddy field.”
complex
“The exhausted animal collapsed after the soldier, in his desperate haste to reach the front lines, rode down his horse on the rocky mountain path.”
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