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run down

English

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

Similar words

poop out peter out run out conk out run over scan skim rake glance over exhaust play out sap tire check out abandoned ausgespielt battered beat-up beaten up belittle blow break down bring down bring into discredit