run down

Meaning

1. To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them.
2. To criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly.
3. To find something or someone after searching for a long time.
4. To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device.
5. To read quickly a list or other short text.
6. To describe in the form of a rundown, a rough outline or summary.
7. To reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure.
8. To decline in quality or condition.
9. To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted.
10. To run against and sink, as a vessel.
11. To crush; to overthrow; to overbear.
12. (slang) To approach (someone, thing or place) aggressively, as to attack.
13. To move (some copy) down to the next line.

Concepts

run down

disparage

belittle

exhaust

run over

depreciate

speak against

knock down

run out

tire

cry down

knock over

conk out

decry

speak slightingly of

chase

chase away

drive off

reduce

calumniate

defame

malign

criticize severely

strike down

peter out

poop out

glance over

rake

scan

skim

play out

sap

check out

speak disparagingly of

speak evil of

despise

look down upon

crush

abase

abridge

bring down

couch

cut up

debase

decrease

degrade

demean

demolish

deprave

destroy

diminish

discredit

downsize

draw

draw a line

drop

humble

humiliate

lessen

let down

look down

lower

make a stroke

mortify

pull down

pull to pieces

roll out

ruin

shrink

streak

wreck

write down

decelerate

slow down

libel

slander

impaired

chase after

corner

drive to the wall

track down

criticise severely

verbally attack

flow down

run off

be done up

be exhausted

be fatigued

be tired

be weary

be declined

be dilapidated

be neglected

be ruined

be worn out

go downhill

do down

crack up

phase in

phase out

hail

pelt

pour forth

spatter

drop down

run after

stopped

revile

traduce

cast aspersions upon

make little of

expose

get rid of

remedy

retrace

trace

track

trail

wash up

catch

catch up

field

grip

pick up

recapture

stop

take hold of

browse

flick

flip

leaf

scroll

thumb

fatigue

wilt

chase down

pursue

trample

decay

degenerate

deteriorate

allow

discharge

catch up with

coerce

compel

force

impel

impose

oblige

press

press on

pressurise

Sentences

I’ll run down and secure my guest .