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run down

VERB
  1. use up all one's strength and energy and stop working
    At the end of the march, I pooped out
  2. move downward
    The water ran down
  3. trace
    We are running down a few tips
  4. pursue until captured
    They ran down the fugitive
  5. examine hastily
    She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi
  6. injure or kill by knocking (someone or something) down and passing over the body, as with a vehicle
  7. 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.
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