Definition of "run down" []

To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them. (verb)
To criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly. (verb)
To find something or someone after searching for a long time. (verb)
To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device. (verb)
To read quickly a list or other short text. (verb)

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Use "run down" in a sentence

"Milkmaids run down mountain passes, dragging kites behind them."
"Mortals, every one, their fast-paced hearts a trilling cascade of notes, like a two-handed cocktail run down a piano keyboard, in comparison to the slow, bass boom of his own heart."
"Among the hills that run down to Sayler's Creek most of his men are captured."

Words like "run down"

consume deplete eat eat up

exhaust fatigue give chase jade

pall run over run through tag

tire use up weary wipe out