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run down

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See also:rundownandrun-down

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Verb

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run down (third-person singular simple presentruns down,present participlerunning down,simple pastran down,past participlerun down)

(transitive) To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them.
He wasrun down while crossing the main road.
(transitive) Tocriticize someone or an organisation, oftenunfairly.
Whatever the company says, the media is going torun themdown.
My sister is alwaysrunning medown in front of my friends.
Don'trun yourselfdown so much!
- 1777,Richard Brinsley Sheridan,The School for Scandal, I.i:
  Ha! ha! ha! 'tis very hard for them to leave a subject they have not quiterun down.
(transitive) Tofind something or someone aftersearching for along time.
Synonyms:run to earth,run to ground
Coordinate term:run in
I finally managed torun down that report. I had filed it incorrectly.
(transitive, intransitive) To losepower slowly. Used for amachine,battery, or other powered device.
You need to wind up the clock every day so that it doesn'trun down.
If you don't switch off the car lights, you willrun the batterydown.
(transitive) To read quickly a list or other short text.
Running down the list of suggestions, I can see three we can discard immediately.
(transitive) To describe in the form of arundown, a rough outline or summary.
- 2013, Nora Roberts,The Name of the Game:
  When the minute was up, John Jay managed to make the woman twice as nervous as heran down the rules and the possibilities.
(British, transitive) Toreduce the size orstock levels of a business, often with a view toclosure.
The board of directors have decided torun down the stocks held in storage prior to offering the company for sale.
- 2022 November 30, Nigel Harris, “A bid to break the other side?”, inRAIL, number971, page 3:
  Social media has been full of strident criticism of a Government perceived as pursuing a conscious policy torun down - even destroy - our railway.
To decline in quality or condition.
torun down in health
- 2022 January 26, Paul Clifton, “"Intolerable" service cuts under emergency COVID timetables”, inRAIL, number949, page 8:
  TravelWatch SouthWest Chairman Chris Irwin said: "This is intolerable. The South West deserves levelling up, notrunning down. SWR and its sponsors in the Department of Transport must be called to account."
(hunting) Tochase till the object pursued iscaptured orexhausted.
torun down a stag
(nautical, transitive) To run against andsink, as a vessel.
- 1943 May and June, Chas. S. Lake, “Some Continental Travel Experiences (1922-1939)—III”, inRailway Magazine, page143:
  TheJylland only missedrunning down a schooner by a few yards in the fog; it was a near thing—near enough, in fact, to allow of some shouted remarks between those on the bridge of the motorship and the man at the wheel of the schooner to be clearly heard.
- 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 14:35 from the start, inGuadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN)‎^[1], archived fromthe original on17 October 2022:
  Hiei now loomed into the action, causing the leading U.S. destroyers to scatter before the oncoming behemoth lest they berun down.
(transitive) Tocrush; tooverthrow; tooverbear.
- 1736,George Berkeley,A Discourse addressed to Magistrates and Men of Authority:
  Religion is[…]run down by the prevailing licence of these times.
(transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To approach (someone, thing or place) aggressively, as to attack.
Heran down on Rashad and them.
(transitive, typography) To move (some copy) down to the next line.
Coordinate term:run in
If they occasionally supply any additional copy after this element,run itdown with a manual line break.

Usage notes

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In all transitive senses except that of “to read quickly”, the object can come before or after the particle. If the object is a pronoun, then it must come before the particle.