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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: trace; "We are running down a few tips" [syn: run down, check out]
2: move downward; "The water ran down"
3: injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle [syn: run down, run over]
4: use up all one's strength and energy and stop working; "At the end of the march, I pooped out" [syn: poop out, peter out, run down, run out, conk out]
5: examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down]
6: deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength" [syn: run down, exhaust, play out, sap, tire]
7: pursue until captured; "They ran down the fugitive"

Merriam Webster's

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. disparage intransitive verb 1. to cease to operate because of the exhaustion of motive power <the clock ran down> 2. to decline in physical condition or vigor

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you run people or things down, you criticize them strongly. He last night denounced the British 'genius for running ourselves down'. ...that chap who was running down state schools. PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron) 2. If people run down an industry or an organization, they deliberately reduce its size or the amount of work that it does. (mainly BRIT) The government is cynically running down Sweden's welfare system... PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron) 3. If someone runs down an amount of something, they reduce it or allow it to decrease. (mainly BRIT) But the survey also revealed firms were running down stocks instead of making new products... PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron) 4. If a vehicle or its driver runs someone down, the vehicle hits them and injures them. Lozano claimed that motorcycle driver Clement Lloyd was trying to run him down. = knock down, run over PHRASAL VERB: V n P 5. If a machine or device runs down, it gradually loses power or works more slowly. The batteries are running down. PHRASAL VERB: V P 6. see also run-down

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

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.

Moby Thesaurus

abandoned, ausgespielt, battered, beat-up, beaten up, belittle, 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, 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, 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