Usually means: Decrease in energy or functionality.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word run down:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. run down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. run-down, run down: Merriam-Webster
  3. run-down, run down: Collins English Dictionary
  4. run-down, run down: Vocabulary.com
  5. Run-down, run-down: Wordnik
  6. run-down, run (sth) down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. run-down, run down: Wiktionary
  8. run-down: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. run-down: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. run-down: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. run-down, run down: Dictionary.com
  12. run-down: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Run down: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. run-down, run down: Rhymezone
  15. run-down, run down: FreeDictionary.org
  16. run-down: ESL Idiom Page
  17. run-down, run down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. run-down, run down: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. run down: Legal dictionary
  2. run-down, run down: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run-down, run down: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run down: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. run down: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. run-down: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Run down: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (run down)

verb:  (transitive) To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them.
verb:  (transitive) To criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly.
verb:  (transitive) To find something or someone after searching for a long time.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device.
verb:  (transitive) To read quickly a list or other short text.
verb:  (transitive) To describe in the form of a rundown, a rough outline or summary.
verb:  (British, transitive) To reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure.
verb:  To decline in quality or condition.
verb:  (hunting) To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted.
verb:  (nautical, transitive) To run against and sink, as a vessel.
verb:  (transitive) To crush; to overthrow; to overbear.
verb:  (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To approach (someone, thing or place) aggressively, as to attack.
verb:  (transitive, typography) To move (some copy) down to the next line.
verb:  (transitive) (of a place) Old and in poor condition.

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