DICTOMETER

RUN-DOWN

(run-down)

1. Synonyms:
   • Summation
   • Summing up
   • Rundown
   Definitions:
   • a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Run down
   • Check out
   Definitions:
   • trace
   Examples:
   • We are running down a few tips
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Run down
   Definitions:
   • move downward
   Examples:
   • The water ran down
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Run down
   • Run over
   Definitions:
   • injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Poop out
   • Peter out
   • Run down
   • Run out
   • Conk out
   Definitions:
   • use up all one's strength and energy and stop working
   Examples:
   • At the end of the march, I pooped out
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Scan
   • Skim
   • Rake
   • Glance over
   • Run down
   Definitions:
   • examine hastily
   Examples:
   • She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Run down
   • Exhaust
   • Play out
   • Sap
   • Tire
   Definitions:
   • deplete
   Examples:
   • Exhaust one's savings
   • We quickly played out our strength
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Run down
   Definitions:
   • pursue until captured
   Examples:
   • They ran down the fugitive
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Creaky
   • Decrepit
   • Derelict
   • Flea-bitten
   • Run-down
   • Woebegone
   Definitions:
   • worn and broken down by hard use
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • New
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Run-down
   Definitions:
   • having the spring unwound
   Examples:
   • A run-down watch
   Antonyms:
   • Functioning