strike someone when they are down

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(idiomatic) Synonym of kick someone when they are down (“make things worse for someone in a difficult position”)

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It's cruel to strike someone when they are down instead of offering support.

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(idiomatic) Synonym of kick someone when they are down (“make things worse for someone in a difficult position”)

but he was already so doubly overthrown by two Learned Opposers, that it seem'd unhandsome and ignoble to strike a man when he was down; his Circumstances making him rather an Object of Pity than Victory.

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strikes someone when they are down （ 現在形 単数形 三人称 ）

striking someone when they are down （ 分詞 現在形 ）

struck someone when they were down （ 分詞 過去形 ）

struck someone when they were down （ 過去形 ）