run down

Speech parts

1. run down - Noun

2. run down - Adjective

3. run down - Verb

4. run down - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

trace

use up all one's strength and energy and stop working

worn and broken down by hard use

deplete

examine hastily

injure or kill by knocking (someone or something) down and passing over the body, as with a vehicle

pursue until captured

move downward

having the spring unwound

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

run-down

Synonyms

exhaust scan tire rake skim run out put down run over track down haggard flay sap peaky pokey used
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Antonyms

hardy hale active adore chipper advance
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Hypernyms

jade chase see run course flow

Examples

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. Learned Hand

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. W. Somerset Maugham

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down. Aneurin Bevan

Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence...you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works. Donald Rumsfeld

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart. Charles Bukowski

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be. Eddie Van Halen

Close letter words and terms

run contraband run counter run deep run down the clock run dry run efficiently