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use up all one's strength and energy and stop working
At the end of the march, I pooped out -
move downward
The water ran down -
trace
We are running down a few tips -
pursue until captured
They ran down the fugitive -
examine hastily
She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi - injure or kill by knocking (someone or something) down and passing over the body, as with a vehicle
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deplete
We quickly played out our strength
exhaust one's savings
How To Use run down In A Sentence
- The Orbo generator is fed from a battery which it, in turn, recharges; with an intact 1st law of thermodynamics, less energy must be generated than consumed and so the battery will run down and the machine stop. The perpetual motion machine « Anglican Samizdat
- The cause of God's people, and of that holy religion which they profess, is a righteous cause, otherwise the righteous God would not appear for it; yet it may for a time be run down, and seem as if it were lost. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
- Twenty-four hours later, as the train slows outside Mogaung, I hop off, run down a dirt road, and leap into the first trishaw I see.
- First we'll run down the basic differences between the more common types of beer.
- She smiled at his playfulness and bit into an apple, tonguing a bit of sweet juice that threatened to run down the side of her lip.
- The driver chocked up the back wheels so that the car could not run down the slope.
- So how exactly did walt-the-ought run down the middle of the freeway, live-streaming himself, within thirty seconds of the vote? FRIDAY MIDNIGHT FIVE STARS • by David J. Rank
- The south side of town is pretty run down.
- He broke out in a cold sweat, feeling the trickles of perspiration run down his clammy face.
- It is now 12 years since our rail system was disastrously privatised and allowed to run down.
