1. run down - Noun
2. run down - Adjective
3. run down - Verb
4. run down - Adjective Satellite
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: WordNetrun-down
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