run-down


Meanings

  • a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)
  • trace;
    • "We are running down a few tips"
  • move downward;
    • "The water ran down"
  • injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle
  • use up all one's strength and energy and stop working;
    • "At the end of the march, I pooped out"
  • examine hastily;
    • "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
  • deplete;
    • "exhaust one's savings"
    • "We quickly played out our strength"
  • pursue until captured;
    • "They ran down the fugitive"
  • worn and broken down by hard use;
    • "a creaky shack"
    • "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"
    • "a flea-bitten sofa"
    • "a run-down neighborhood"
    • "a woebegone old shack"
  • having the spring unwound;
    • "a run-down watch"


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