run down
Short definition from Wiktionary
Verb
- To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them.
- To criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly.
- To find something or someone after searching for a long time.
- To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device.
- To read quickly a list or other short text.
- To describe in the form of a rundown, a rough outline or summary.
- To reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure.
- To decline in quality or condition.
- To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted.
- To run against and sink, as a vessel.
- To crush; to overthrow; to overbear.
- To approach (someone, thing or place) aggressively, as to attack.
- To move (some copy) down to the next line.
Adjective
- Tired and exhausted.
- Decrepit.
- Having the spring unwound.
Noun
- Alternative form of rundown.
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