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.
to run down,
to run down a coast,
run the clock down,
East Broadway Run Down,
run down building,
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▸ 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.
Similar:
peter out,
run over,
use up,
exhaust,
tire,
conk out,
skim,
run out,
check out,
glance over,
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