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Run down   /rən daʊn/   Listen
Run down

verb
1.
Trace.  Synonym: check out.
2.
Move downward.
3.
Injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle.  Synonym: run over.
4.
Use up all one's strength and energy and stop working.  Synonyms: conk out, peter out, poop out, run out.
5.
Examine hastily.  Synonyms: glance over, rake, scan, skim.
6.
Deplete.  Synonyms: exhaust, play out, sap, tire.  "We quickly played out our strength"
7.
Pursue until captured.





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"Run down" Quotes from Famous Books



... so wildly, Ivan Petrowitsch? Why do the big drops of sweat run down thy forehead? Why do thy limbs tremble, and why dost thou look so sadly ...
— The Merchant of Berlin - An Historical Novel • L. Muhlbach
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... Grantham to amuse the women," he said to himself; "that will be more in his line than mine. I will run down to Cowes to-morrow and have a chat with Johnson; we shall want a different sort of stores altogether to those we generally carry, and I suppose we must do ...
— Tales of Daring and Danger • George Alfred Henty
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... know. It's great to fly through a storm. You can just ride on its wings. Throw on your raincoat and come on quick! I'm going to run down to the Beach. Who's afraid of an old storm with this ...
— The Foolish Virgin • Thomas Dixon
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... times through a flame, and leave it, at the ordinary temperature of a comfortable room, half an hour. If, however, quicker results are desired, boil a little water in a test tube and put in about double the above indicated amount of the glycerine mixture, letting it run down the side of the tube, gently shake until absorbed, and pour out the hot liquid into a convenient dish, and at once put in the cover with sputum. Without further attention to the temperature the stain will be effected within two minutes; but the result is not quite so ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 417 • Various
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... himself to think no more about it? No. Not on your life he hadn't. He'd stood up to himself. He'd asked himself what the hell was the matter, and he'd gone after it, as any grown man would. It hadn't been fun. He remembered that the sweat had run down his face as though he'd been handling planks in the lumber-yard ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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