run down
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(verb) injure or kill by running over, as with a car |
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Synonyms: run over |
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Related Words: injure, wound |
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(verb) pursue until captured: "They ran down the fugitive" |
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Related Words: chase, chase after, dog, go after, tag, tail, track, trail |
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(verb) move downward; "The water ran down" |
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Related Words: course, flow, run |
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(verb) deplete; "exhaust one's savings" |
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Synonyms: exhaust, sap, tire, use up |
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Related Words: drain, sap |
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(verb) trace; "We are running down a few tips" |
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Synonyms: check out |
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Related Words: act on, follow up on, pursue |
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(verb) use up all one's strength and energy and stop working; "At the end of the march, I pooped out" |
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Synonyms: conk out, peter out, poop out, run out |
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Related Words: fatigue, jade, pall, tire, weary |
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(verb) examine hastily |
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Synonyms: glance over, rake, scan, skim |
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Related Words: examine |
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