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Meaning of RUN DOWN

Pronunciation:  run dawn

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  1. [adj]  having the spring unwound; "a run-down watch"
  2. [adj]  worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"
  3. [v]  use up all one's strength and energy and stop working; "At the end of the march, I pooped out"
  4. [v]  injure or kill by running over, as with a car
  5. [v]  pursue until captured; "They ran down the fugitive"
  6. [v]  move downward; "The water ran down"
  7. [v]  examine hastily
  8. [v]  deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
  9. [v]  trace; "We are running down a few tips"
 
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 Synonyms: check out, conk out, creaky, decrepit, exhaust, flea-bitten, glance over, malfunctioning, nonfunctional, peter out, play out, poop out, rake, run out, run over, sap, scan, skim, tire, woebegone, worn
 
 See Also: act on, chase, chase after, consume, course, deplete, dog, eat, eat up, examine, fatigue, flow, follow up on, go after, injure, jade, pall, pursue, run, run through, see, tag, tail, tire, track, trail, use up, weary, wipe out, wound

 

 

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Rundown
Struggling to gain the attention of her mother, father, and boyfriend, Jennifer Thayer invents a shocking story about fighting off a serial rapist, but soon finds herself trapped by her own lies. Reprint.

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