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run down - definition and meaning
Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them.
- verb transitive To
criticize someone or an organisation, oftenunfairly . - verb transitive To
find something or someone after searching for a long time. - verb transitive, intransitive To lose
power slowly. Used for amachine ,battery , or other powered device. - verb transitive To read quickly a list or other short text.
- verb UK, transitive To
reduce the size orstock levels of a business, often with a view toclosure .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb use up all one's strength and energy and stop working
- verb deplete
- verb pursue until captured
- verb examine hastily
- verb injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle
- verb move downward
- verb trace
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synonyms (259)
Words with the same meaning
- abandoned
- ausgespielt
- battered
- beat-up
- beaten up
- belittle
- berate
- blow
- break down
- bring down
- bring into discredit
- bring low
- broken-down
- burn out
- burned-out
- cachectic
- calm
- calm down
- cease
- collapse
- collide
- crack up
- cry down
- debase
- debilitated
- decline
- decrepit
- decry
- degrade
- demean
- depreciate
- derelict
- derogate
- derogate from
- deserted
- desolate
- determine
- detract from
- devitalized
- die
- die down
- dilapidated
- diminish
- dingy
- disabled
- disapprove of
- discover
- discredit
- disgrace
- disparage
- dispraise
- done
- done up
- down-at-heel
- drained
- droop
- drooping
- droopy
- drop
- dwindle
- ebb
- effete
- emptied
- enervated
- enfeebled
- eviscerated
- exhausted
- fade
- fagged
- fail
- failing
- faint
- fainting
- fall
- fall aboard
- fall away
- fall off
- far-gone
- fatigue
- fatigued
- feeble
- feeling faint
- find
- find out
- flag
- flagging
- follow
- follow a clue
- follow up
- footsore
- forsaken
- frail
- frazzled
- gasp
- get
- get tired
- give out
- go down
- go downhill
- go off
- good and tired
- grow weary
- halt
- head into
- healthless
- hit
- hit a slump
- hit and run
- hit rock bottom
- hit the skids
- hold in contempt
- hunt down
- in poor health
- in ruins
- incapacitated
- infirm
- inundate
- invalid
- invent
- jade
- jaded
- knock
- knock down
- laid low
- languid
- languish
- languishing
- lapse
- locate
- lose strength
- lull
- make little of
- minimize
- molder
- moribund
- nose
- nose out
- overflow
- override
- overrun
- pacify
- pale
- pant
- peak
- peaked
- peaky
- peter out
- pine
- play out
- played out
- poop out
- pooped
- puff
- puff and blow
- put down
- quiesce
- quiet
- quieten
- ram
- ramshackle
- reach the depths
- ready to drop
- rediscover
- reduced
- reduced in health
- reflect discredit upon
- ride down
- ride over
- ride roughshod over
- ruined
- ruinous
- run broadside on
- run in
- run into
- run out
- run over
- run ragged
- run to earth
- sagging
- sail into
- sapped
- seedy
- shabby
- shadow
- shotten
- sickly
- sink
- slide
- slight
- slip
- slummy
- slump
- smell out
- sniff out
- soothe
- speak ill of
- spent
- stalk
- stop
- strike
- submit to indignity
- subside
- succumb
- tacky
- tail
- tattered
- tire
- tired
- tired-winged
- toilworn
- tottery
- touch bottom
- trace
- trace down
- track
- track down
- trail
- trample
- trample on
- trample underfoot
- trample upon
- tranquilize
- tread upon
- tumbledown
- uncared-for
- unhealthy
- unrefreshed
- unrestored
- unsound
- untended
- used up
- valetudinarian
- valetudinary
- wane
- waste
- waste away
- wasted
- way-weary
- wayworn
- weak
- weaken
- weakened
- weakly
- wearied
- weariful
- weary
- weary-footed
- weary-laden
- weary-winged
- weary-worn
- wheeze
- wilt
- wilting
- with low resistance
- wither
- wither away
- worn
- worn-down
- worn-out
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