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run-down

 
Adjective run-down has 2 senses
  1. creaky, decrepit, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone - 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"
    Antonym: unworn (indirect, via worn)
  2. run-down - having the spring unwound; "a run-down watch"
    Antonym:
    functioning (indirect, via malfunctioning)
Noun run-down has 1 sense
  1. summation, summing up, rundown - a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)
    --1 is a kind of summary
Verb run-down has 7 senses
  1. run down, check out - trace; "We are running down a few tips"
    --1 is one way to pursue, follow up on, act on
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. run down - move downward; "The water ran down"
    --2 is one way to run, flow, feed, course
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  3. run down, run over - injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle
    --3 is one way to injure, wound
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  4. poop out, peter out, run down, run out, conk out - use up all one's strength and energy and stop working; "At the end of the march, I pooped out"
    --4 is one way to tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  5. scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down - examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
    --5 is one way to examine, see
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
  6. run down, exhaust, play out, sap, tire - deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
    --6 is one way to consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  7. run down - pursue until captured; "They ran down the fugitive"
    --7 is one way to chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
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