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run down

verb 13
run-down adjective 3
forms 5

verb13

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To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them.
- He was run down while crossing the main road.
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To run against and sink, as a vessel.
- Hiei now loomed into the action, causing the leading U.S. destroyers to scatter before the oncoming behemoth lest they be run down. — 2021
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To criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly.
- Whatever the company says, the media is going to run them down.
- My sister is always running me down in front of my friends.
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To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device.
- You need to wind up the clock every day so that it doesn't run down.
- If you don't switch off the car lights, you will run the battery down.
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To decline in quality or condition.
- to run down in health
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To find something or someone after searching for a long time.
- I finally managed to run down that report. I had filed it incorrectly.
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To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted.
- to run down a stag
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To read quickly a list or other short text.
- Running down the list of suggestions, I can see three we can discard immediately.
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To describe in the form of a rundown, a rough outline or summary.
- When the minute was up, John Jay managed to make the woman twice as nervous as he ran down the rules and the possibilities. — 2013
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(UK) To reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure.
- The board of directors have decided to run down the stocks held in storage prior to offering the company for sale.
- Before you move, you should run down your food supplies in the fridge, freezer, and pantry to use up as much as possible.
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(slang) To approach (someone, thing or place) aggressively, as to attack.
- He ran down on Rashad and them.
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To crush; to overthrow; to overbear.
- Religion is […]run down by the prevailing licence of these times. — 1736
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To move (some copy) down to the next line.
- If they occasionally supply any additional copy after this element, run it down with a manual line break.

run-down adjective3

Tired and exhausted.
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Decrepit.
- The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […]. — 1958
Having the spring unwound.

forms

ran down · running down · runs down · more run-down · most run-down

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