strike someone when they are down (English, verb)
expansion: strike someone when they are down (third-person singular simple present strikes someone when they are down, present participle striking someone when they are down, simple past and past participle struck someone when they were down)
Senses:
glosses: Synonym of kick someone when they are down (“make things worse for someone in a difficult position”).
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: strikes someone when they are down
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: striking someone when they are down
tags: participle
present
form: struck someone when they were down
tags: participle
past
form: struck someone when they were down
tags: past