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run down (verb)

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  • run down — verb a) To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them. He was run down while crossing the main road. b) To criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly. Whatever the company says, the media is going to run them down.… …   Wiktionary

  • run down — 1) PHRASAL VERB If you run people or things down, you criticize them strongly. [V n P] He last night denounced the British genius for running ourselves down . [V P n (not pron)] ...that chap who was running down state schools. Syn …   English dictionary

  • run down — UK US run down Phrasal Verb with run({{}}/rʌn/ verb (running, ran, run) ► to gradually end an organization s, industry s, etc. operations: be run down »The country s nuclear industry is being run down. run sth down »The president had promised to… …   Financial and business terms

  • run down — phrasal verb Word forms run down : present tense I/you/we/they run down he/she/it runs down present participle running down past tense ran down past participle run down 1) [transitive] to hit someone with your car and injure or kill them be/get… …   English dictionary

  • run down — /ˌrʌn daυn/ verb 1. to reduce a quantity gradually ● We decided to run down stocks or to let stocks run down at the end of the financial year. 2. to slow down the business activities of a company before it is going to be closed ● The company is… …   Marketing dictionary in english

  • run down — /ˌrʌn daυn/ verb 1. to reduce a quantity gradually ● We decided to run down stocks or to let stocks run down at the end of the financial year. 2. to slow down the business activities of a company before it is going to be closed ● The company is… …   Dictionary of banking and finance

  • run down — phr verb Run down is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑battery, ↑chill, ↑corridor, ↑perspiration, ↑sweat, ↑tear Run down is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ball, ↑flight, ↑industry, ↑stair, ↑ …   Collocations dictionary

  • run down — verb 1. trace (Freq. 2) We are running down a few tips • Syn: ↑check out • Hypernyms: ↑pursue, ↑follow up on, ↑act on • Verb Frames …   Useful english dictionary

  • run down — 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.… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • run down the clock — verb To waste time at the end of a match such that it is terminated by running out of time, or during a match so a time penalty is made less severe. Syn: run the clock down …   Wiktionary

  • run down — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. disparage, criticize; enumerate, list; unwind. See detraction, list, end. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To chase] Syn. hunt, seize, apprehend; see catch 2 , pursue 1 . 2. [To speak slightingly of] Syn.… …   English dictionary for students

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