How to pronounce “run down”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them.
• (transitive) To criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly.
• (transitive) To find something or someone after searching for a long time.
• (transitive, intransitive) To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device.
• (transitive) To read quickly a list or other short text.
• (transitive) To describe in the form of a rundown, a rough outline or summary.
• (British, transitive) To reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure.
• To decline in quality or condition.
• (hunting) To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted.
• (nautical, transitive) To run against and sink, as a vessel.
• (transitive) To crush; to overthrow; to overbear.
• (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To approach (someone, thing or place) aggressively, as to attack.
• (transitive, typography) To move (some copy) down to the next line.

Practice Nearby Words

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