Run Down

Definition: Run Down

Run Down

Verb

1. Trace; "We are running down a few tips".

2. Move downward; "The water ran down".

3. Injure or kill by running over, as with a car.

4. Use up all one's strength and energy and stop working; "At the end of the march, I pooped out".

5. Examine hastily.

6. Deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength".

7. Pursue until captured: "They ran down the fugitive".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Building & Civil Engineering

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Synonyms: Run Down

Attack

Let fly at, dash at, run a tilt at, rush at, tilt at, run at, fly at, hawk at, have at, let out at; make a dash, make a rush at; strike home; drive one hard; press one hard; be hard upon, run down, strike at the root of.

Detraction

Verb: detract, derogate, decry, deprecate, depreciate, disparage; run down, cry down; backcap; belittle; sneer at; (contemn); criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat, asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon, bespatter, blacken, vilify, vilipend; avile; give a dog a bad name, brand, malign; muckrake; backbite, libel, lampoon, traduce, slander, defame, calumniate, bear false witness against; speak ill of behind one's back.

Disapprobation

Decry; cry down, run down, frown down; clamor, hiss, hoot, mob, ostracize, blacklist; draw up a round robin, sign a round robin.

Inexpedience

Wrong, aggrieve, oppress, persecute; trample upon, tread upon, bear hard upon, put upon; overburden; weigh down, weigh heavy on; victimize; run down; molest.

Pursuit

Rush upon; rush headlong; (violence) ride full tilt at, run full tilt at; make a leap at, jump at, snatch at run down; start game.

Crosswords: Run Down

The only way you'll ever end up lying next to me, Max, is if we're run down by the same car. (Raw Deal; writing credit: Gary DeVore; Sergio Donati)

And he says that lots of times, you don't even run down court (Airplane!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker)

As you run down the aisle (It's All Been Done; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies; writing credit: Steven Page)

Acknowledge me as i run down my life story (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob)

Till the tears run down from my eyesLord (Somebody To Love; performing artist: QUEEN; writing credit: Freddie Mercury)

Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers (references; author: unknown)

What boys say to girls: I wish I was one of your tears so I could be born in your eye, run down your cheek, and die on your lips. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Chills Run Down My Spine (reference)

• Christopher Wool: 9th Street Run Down (reference)

• Feeling Run Down Again, Herman? (reference)

• Run Down Fired Up and Teed Off (reference)

• Run down; the world of Alan Brett (reference)

  (more book examples)

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The "Club" at Sandakan Unidentified PATHFINDER personnel and locals After a run down to Sandakan for coal. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Doctor Doctor- I'm a bit run down. Can I have a prescription? : You don't need a pill for every ill- let the Doctor decide. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"But I'm not tired, discouraged or run down". Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

Surprisingly, some people with dry eye may have tears that run down their cheeks. (references)

Human Rights

Portugal

In December a PSP officer shot and injured an unarmed suspect, Paulo Moreira, who allegedly tried to run down the police in a car during a pursuit in Lisbon. (references)

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Expressions using "run down": be run down ♦ snatch at run down ♦ To run down ♦ To run down a coast. Additional references.

Albanian

zbres me vrap, shtyp (bruise, clench, compact, crush, Dent, depress, die, grind, newspapers, oppress, organ, override, pestle, pound, press, print, push down, quash, quell, repress, run over, scotch, squash, squeeze, stamp, step, strike off, suppress, swat, trample, trample down, triturate, type, tyrannize), shkarkohet, ngec (break down, conk out, flounder, fob off, foist, foul, hesitate, hitch, jam, Lodge, pack up, plant, seize, throw, thrust), ndalet (discontinue, draw up, drop, heave to, put in). (various references)

Arabic 

‏طارد (bouncer, chase, course, dog, evictor, expeller, fly, give chase, go after, hound, hunt, prosecute, pursue, repellent, run, want), ‏أرهق (beat, break, exhaust, fatigue, gruel, harass, labor, labour, lie, load, overload, overstrain, pump, saddle, soak, squeeze, tax, try, tucker, weary, weigh, weigh down, weight), ‏أصاب بارهاق, ‏أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken), ‏إصطدم (barge into, bump up against, clash, crash, impact, impinge, jostle, knock against smb., run into), ‏إنخفاض (depression, drooping, reduction, sag, slide, slip), ‏إنهار (break down, cave, collapse, come down, crack, crash, crock, crumple, drop, fall, fall in, founder, go under, perish, plummet, ruin, sink, slough, slump, tumble, tumble down), ‏داس (run over, trample, tread), ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏كف عن العمل (pack up), ‏طلع (acquaint, ascend, be acquainted with, be updated, brief, climb, go up, hip, inform, introduce, prime, rise), ‏تخفيض (decrease, lessening, lowering, markdown, rebate, reduction, relief), ‏توقف (break off, breakdown, come to a halt, cut off, demise, discontinue, end, halt, hinge, hitch, lapse, layover, let up, letup, obstruction, pass by, pause, pull up, quit, rest, setback, stall, stand, stay, stop, stop over, stoppage, stopping, touch), ‏نزل مسرعا, ‏مرهق (arduous, burdened, dog tired, exacting, exhausted, exhausting, fatigued, fatiguing, grueling, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressed, oppressive, overtaxed, overtired, overworked, strained, strenuous, stressed, tired, tiring, toil-worn, trying, wearing, wearisome, weary, worn, worn out), ‏منهك (dog tired, dogsbody, exhausted, exhausting, grueling, haggard, overfatigued, overstrained, overtaxed, overtired, overworked, tired, tiring, toilsome, toil-worn, weary, worn out), ‏خفف نشاط شئ. (various references)

Bulgarian 

намаление (abridgement, curtailment, cutback, decline, decrease, discount, rebate, reduction), изтощавам (bucket, crock, deplete, distress, do in, emaciate, exhaust, extend, fag, farm out, fatigue, frazzle, gruel, impoverish, kill, leech, overcrop, overwork, play out, poop, prostrate, pump, pump out, punish, rack, reduce, sew up, spend, tire out, tucker, waste), изтощавам се (frazzle, macerate, overwork, poop), изтощен (all in, bushed, down and out, effete, emaciated, enervate, exhausted, gaunt, jaded, limp, perished, played out, prostrate, screwy, shagged out, shot, sick, spent, used up, weary, whacked), подробен анализ, повалям (blow down, bring down, deck, drop, fell, flatten, fling down, floor, hew, knock down, lay low, lay out, level, overthrow, pole-ax, precipitate, prostrate, shoot down, stretch out, strike, strike down, throw down, tumble down, zap), порутен (dilapidated, ramshackle, ruined, tumble down), преглед (examination, inspection, review, round up, view), прегазвам (override, overrun, run over, splash), простирам се (continue, go, lie, range, reach, reach down, run, sweep), пускам по-слабо, западнал (broken down, decayed, distressed), залавям (catch, intercept, nab, take), занемарен (neglected, ragged, seedy, shabby, sleazy, squalid, uncultivated, unkempt, untended), изказвам се пренебрежително за, критикувам (animadvert, bad-mouth, crab, criticize, fault, nibble, pick at), стигам (carry down, come round, go, last, reach, suffice), сблъсквам се с (cannon into, encounter, run into), спрял, спадане (decrease, decrement, deflation, falling, slip, subsidence, wane), спирам (arrest, bit, block, brake, bring to, bring to rest, bring up, call a halt, cease, check, come to a halt, come to rest, cut, cut off, cut short, die, discontinue, draw up, drive up, dwell, end, fix, go phut, halt, hang up, heave to, hold back, hold in, immobilize, impede, inhibit, intervene, keep off, kill, leave off, lock, occlude, preclude, prevent, pull in, pull up, put in, quash, quit, snub, stint, stop, suppress, suspend, trammel, trig, withhold), застигам (overtake), хващам (capture, catch, clamp, find out, get, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hook, hunt down, land, nail, nip, nobble, pick up, pot, prey upon, seize, snag, strike, take, take effect, take up, track down), намирам (be found, detect, discover, find, fit in, found, get, hit, hunt out, judge, land, locate, look up, raise, regard, root out, root up, rustle up, scare up, secure, see, strike, track down, turn up), капнал (all in, dead, prostrate, shot, washed out), откривам (bare, descry, detect, dig up, disclose, discover, disinter, espy, expose, find, find out, inaugurate, initiate, lay bare, lay open, lead off, locate, open, pick out, pry out, recover, reopen, reveal, rout out, rout up, spot, strike, unclose, uncover, unearth, unveil), недооценявам (misjudge, misprise, misprize, underestimate, underrate, undervalue), намалявам персонала, намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), събарям (bowl over, break down, bring down, demolish, dismantle, fell, fling, fling down, grass, kick over, knock down, knock off, lay low, overthrow, prostrate, pull down, push down, push over, rase, raze, ride down, subvert, tear down, throw down), резюме (abridgement, abstract, analysis, argument, capsule, conspectus, digest, epitome, memorandum, precis, recap, recapitulation, round up, summary, synopsis). (various references)

Czech

restrikce (cutback, restraint, restriction, rundown), redukce (reduction), zastavit se (call, call a halt, come to a halt, come to halt, come to rest, heave to, stand, stop by), sbìhnout, porazit (bear down, beat, best, butcher, chop down, conquer, cut down, defeat, fell, hack down, hew, hew down, kill, knock down, overthrow, overturn, smite, stick, strike down, stump, tumble, vanquish), odjet (depart, drive away, drive off, drop off, leave). (various references)

Dutch

afkammen (cry down, cut up, demolish, pull to pieces, write down), afgeven op (cry down, cut up, demolish, pull to pieces, write down), afbreken (break, break down, break off, cry down, cut, cut a connection, cut up, demolish, divide, pick, pluck, pull down, pull to pieces, separate, share, stop, take down, tear off, write down). (various references)

Esperanto

diskreditigi (cry down, cut up, demolish, pull to pieces, write down). (various references)

Finnish

ajaa kumoon (knock down). (various references)

French

réduire peu � peu l'ampleur de, s'arrêter, parcourir (run through), mettre aux abois, descendre en courant, dénigrer, démolir, décrier, débiner, critiquer, avoir une dent contre qn, aboyer � , abaisser (ruin), éreinter, épuiser (run away with). (various references)

German

umfahren (bowl over, bypass, circle, circumnavigate, detour, double, drive around, drive round, knock down, round, run over, sail around, to drive round), sich entladen (discharge, explode, vent itself), schlechtmachen (cheapen, decry, denigrate, do down, malign, minimize), schlapp (flabby, floppy, lily livered, limp, limply, listless, nerveless, shattered, washed out, worn out, yellow), mitgenommen (frayed, harassed, ropey, ropy, taken along, upset), in Mißkredit bringen (cry down, cut up, demolish, pull to pieces, write down), hinunterlaufen (slip down), heruntergewirtschaftet, heruntergekommen (come down, decrepit, dilapidated, down at heel, seamy, sordid), bericht (account, bulletin, commentary, communication, information, item, narrative, news copy, record, report, story, tale, update, write up), begeifern (dribble on), anfahren (approach, deliver, drive up, hit, jump at, jump on, pull up, put in at, round on, run into, sail into, shout at, snub, start up, stop at), abbau (breakdown, cutback, decomposition, dismantling, mining, quarrying, reduction), überrollen (overrun, steamroller), überrennen (overrun, overwhelm). (various references)

Greek 

καταβεβλημένοσ (haggard), καταβεβλημένος (haggard), ρημαγμένος (ravaged), πατώ με το αυτοκίνητο (run over), αποπαίρνω (browbeat, carp, nag, reprehend, snub). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"עצר (be detained, cease, halt, pull up, stop), ל�"חלש (become weak, decline, flag, grow weak, weaken, wilt), ל�"רוס (knock down, run over, stomp, take for a ride), חלש (faint, feeble, flaccid, frail, slight, weak), רעוע (breaking, dilapidated, ramshackle, rickety, shaky, shattering, tumble down, unsound). (various references)

Hungarian

leszalad (to run down), lejár (expire, fall due on, finish, to be due, to become forfeited, to expire, to fall due, to mature, to run down, to run out), kimerülés (dead-beatness, depletion, distress, extenuation), kimerül (drain, Peter, run out, to be at an end, to be run down, to crap out, to drain, to fatigue, to give out, to peter out), elkopott (frayed, rinky-dink, worn-out). (various references)

Italian

riduzione dell'attivit� , ridurre gradualmente, scaricare (deduct, disburden, discharge, disembogue, dump, empty, exhaust, flow, land, offload, release, relieve, set down, tip, unlade, unload, unloading, unwind, vent), investire (assail, give, invest, place, put, run over, sink, vest), fatiscente, denigrare (asperse, backbite, denigrate, disparage), debilitato. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

駆け下りる (to run down), 駆け下る (to run down), 追っ掛ける (to chase or run after someone, to pursue, to run down), 追い詰める (to corner, to drive to the wall, to run down, to track down), 追い掛ける (to chase or run after someone, to pursue, to run down), 糞みそに言う (to criticize severely, to run down, to verbally attack). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おっかける (to chase or run after someone, to pursue, to run down), おいつめる (to corner, to drive to the wall, to run down, to track down), おいかける (to chase or run after someone, to pursue, to run down), くそみそにいう (to criticize severely, to run down, to verbally attack), かけおりる (to run down), かけく� る (to run down). (various references)

Manx

roie sheese (sweep down), lhieggal (beat down, beat down price, bowl over, cast down, chop down, dismount, fall, fell, fetch down, get down, knock over, lay low, level, lower, pull down, pull over, raze, topple, tumble), lhaggit (bated), follym (barren, barren as mind, blank, blank as cartridge, disengaged, empty, empty-handed, expressionless, flat, formal, free, hollow, inane, platitudinous, shallow, vacant, vacuous, void, waste, waste in town). (various references)

Pig Latin

unray ownday.(various references)

Portuguese

falar mal de (backbite, grumble, malign), decair (decay, decline, ebb, retrogress, sag), alcançar (accomplish, achieve, acquire, arrive, attain, catch up, come, compass, comprehend, earn, fetch, gain, get, get around, go, obtain, overtake, reach, reach for, touch, understand), abusar (abuse, encroach). (various references)

Romanian

vorbi de råu (cry down, cut up, demolish, pull to pieces, write down), scufunda (dip, dive, drown, engulf, founder, send to the bottom, sink, soak, submerge, subside, swamp, whelm), ponegri (abuse, asperse, backbite, black, blacken, cry down, cut up, demolish, denigrate, mire, pull to pieces, slander, write down), discredita (cry down, cut up, damage, decry, deface, demolish, depreciate, discredit, disparage, pull to pieces, throw discredit on, undermine, write down), denigra (denigrate, disparage, slander), încercui un cerb. (various references)

Russian 

раздавить (crush, smash), выбегать (dash out), останавливаться (cease, come to a standstill, come to rest, dwell, halt, pause, repose, shut down, stand, stop, stop away), наезжать (come now and then, run into a passer-by), задавить (run over), догнать (catch up, overtake, regain). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nenavijen. (various references)

Spanish

hundir (plunge, sag, scupper, sink, swamp, trip up, wreck), denigrar (abase, abuse, blacken, denigrate, disparage, knock), bajar corriendo, atropellar (be run down, collide, knock down, knock over, mob, outrage, push around, run, run over, walk over). (various references)

Swedish

springa omkull, slutkörd (exhausted, run-down), nedskärning (condensation, cut, cutback, cutting down, retrenchment), kort sammanfatning, fallfärdig (decrepit, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumbledown). (various references)

Turkish

rapor (paper, record, report, return, sick certificate, sick report, statement, write up), faaliyeti azaltmak, çiğnemek (break, champ, chew, chump, contravene, crunch, infringe, masticate, outrage, override, run over, squelch, stamp, swamp, tramp, trample, trample down, transgress, violate), üretimi düşürmek, aşağıya koşmak, akmak (bleed, course, discharge, drain, drain away, drain off, fall into, flow, issue, leak, pour, pour itself, pour out, run, run out, sluice, splutter, stream, well forth, well out, well up), ayrıntılı rapor, bitkin (all in, all out, beat, broken down, bushed, dead beat, dog tired, drained, drawn, drawn out, drooping, effete, exhausted, faint, forworn, haggard, jaded, knackered, languorous, overdone, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, spent, stale, tired, tired to death, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, washed out, weakly, weary, whacked, wonky, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle, wretched, zonked), bitmiş (all over, all up, at an end, exhausted, finished, out, over, spent, used up), boşalmış (flat), boşalmak (cream, cum, discharge, drain away, drain off, ejaculate, empty, exhaust, swell, teem), dökülmek (be poured, come off, course, disembogue, disgorge, drape, empty, fall, fall into, fall into decay, fall off, fall out, feel cheap, flow, go to pieces, molder, moulder, Peel, peel off, pour, pour forth, pour out, rub off, slop over, spill, teem, trail), durmak (be, cease, come to a halt, come to a stop, discontinue, draw rein, draw up, endure, halt, harp, hold, hold on, intermit, keep, let up, linger, pack up, pull in, pull up, remain, rest, stall, stand, stay, stop), çarparak batırmak, ezmek (Bray, comminute, crunch, crush, domineer, grind, hold down, knock over, mangle, mash, oppress, overbear, overwhelm, pound, pulverize, quash, run over, scrunch, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, squish, stamp, stave in, steamroller, stump, swat, trample, trample down, tread, tread under foot, tyrannize, weigh down), yorgun (all in, all out, bushed, done, drawn, effete, forworn, jaded, languorous, off, pooped, pooped out, spent, stale, tired, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, wan, washed out, weary, whacked, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle), halsiz (drooping, droopy, exhausted, faint, groggy, infirm, languid, languorous, prostrate, senile, sluggish, very tired, washy, weak, weakly, wonky), halsiz düşmüş (decayed, tired out, tired to death), hastalıktan halsiz, kötülemek (back bite, backbite, cry down, decry, defame, denigrate, discredit, disparage, dispraise, do down, revile, revile against smth., revile at smth., slander, speak ill of, vilify), kötüye gitmek (recrudesce), küçük düşürmek (abase, affront, bring into contempt, debase, degrade, depreciate, detract, disparage, give affront to, give smb. the wall, humiliate, lessen, lower, make smb. feel small, score smb. off, snub, stigmatize, stultify, take smb. down a peg), kurulmamış (unwound), kurulmayıp durmuş, perişan (confused, dead beat, dead end, desolate, distraught, down and out, down at heels, forlorn, hangdog, out at elbows, poor, prostrate, ruinous, scattered, seedy, shoestring, up the spout, wretched), tükenmiş (at an end, distressed, drained, drawn, exhausted, extinct, finished, played out, stale, used up), durmuş. (various references)

Ukrainian

стомлений (all in, all out, aweary, beat, beaten, done, irked, spent, tired, washed out, washed up, weary, whacked, worn out), розряджатися, що розрядився, незаведений (unwound), наздоганяти (overget, overhaul), зупинятися (alight, bait, draw up, pause, put in, stanch, stand still, stay, stop), перевтомлюватися (overdo it, overstrain, overwork). (various references)

defluant, defluebantque, defluent, defluenti, defluentibus, deflueret, defluet, defluit, defluxerunt, defluxit. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rundown.

-1 letter: unworn.

-2 letters: drown, round, unwon, wound.

-3 letters: dour, down, durn, duro, noun, nurd, undo, word, worn.

-4 letters: don, dor, dow, dun, duo, nod, nor, now, nun, oud, our, own, rod, row, run, udo, urd, urn, won, wud.

-5 letters: do, no, nu, od, on, or, ow, un, wo.

+1 letter: downturn, rundowns, turndown.

+2 letters: downturns, sundowner, turndowns, uncrowned.

+3 letters: sundowners.

+5 letters: untowardness, wondrousness.