phrasal verb

• ride someone down, ride down someoneTrample or overtake someone while on horseback.

  ‘a girl had to go to hospital after being ridden down’

  More example sentences

  • ‘They ride us down with their horses, whip us, and people are always assaulted.’
  • ‘He is a unit in a line rushing on the enemy with the one idea of riding him down and transfixing him with his rigid saber, held at the position of charge saber.’