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51run\ down — v (stress on down ) 1. To crash against and knock down or sink. Jack rode his bicycle too fast and almost ran down his little brother. It was so foggy that the steamship almost ran down a small boat leaving port. Compare: run into(3a) 2a. To… …
52run down — verb 1. trace (Freq. 2) We are running down a few tips • Syn: ↑check out • Hypernyms: ↑pursue, ↑follow up on, ↑act on • Verb Frames …
53run down — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. disparage, criticize; enumerate, list; unwind. See detraction, list, end. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To chase] Syn. hunt, seize, apprehend; see catch 2 , pursue 1 . 2. [To speak slightingly of] Syn.… …
54run down — verb Date: circa 1578 transitive verb 1. a. to collide with and knock down b. to run against and cause to sink 2. a. to chase to exhaustion or until captured b. to trace the source of c. to tag out (a base runner) between bases on a rundown 3.… …
55run down — 1. Catch by chasing, chase to weariness. 2. Run against and sink. 3. Crush, overthrow, overbear, overwhelm. 4. Decry, disparage, depreciate, condemn, traduce, cry down …
56run-down — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. dilapidated, broken down, tumbledown; weakened, weary, debilitated, done up, used up, in a bad way. See deterioration. n., informal, narrative, description. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Exhausted] Syn …
57run-down — adj 1. unhealthy, in poor health, sickly, peaked, with low resistance, languishing, on one s last legs; debilitated, valetudinarian, Inf. off one s feed, below par, not oneself, laid low, Sl. in a bad way, Inf. far gone; weakened, out of… …
58run down — criticize; run over, hit with a vehicle; chase and capture; become exhausted; make less valuable adj. dilapidated, ramshackle; exhausted, weakened …
59run down — reduce or become reduced in size or resources. → run …
60run down — obviously, this barn didn t start running down yesterday Syn: decline, degenerate, go downhill, go to seed, decay, go to rack and ruin; informal go to pot, go to the dogs …
