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run down

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Examples from the Corpus
run down• They buy up rival companies then just run them down.• A lot of people feel run down in the winter months, when the days are short and there's very little sunlight.• Opposition leaders are accusing the government of running down the Health Service.• You're run down -- you need a vacation.
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ˌrun-ˈdown adjectiveadj  
1  TBCONDITION/STATE OF somethinga building or area that is run-down is in very bad condition 〔建筑物或地区〕破旧的，破落的
 a run-down inner-city area
破旧的市中心贫民区
2  [not before noun]MIILL someone who is run-down is tired and not healthy 精疲力竭的，衰弱的
 You look a bit run-down.
你看上去有点疲倦。
Examples from the Corpus
run-down• Since the textile company moved out, the area's gotten very run-down.• The distant fading signals a run-down age of degenerate belief.• He made a fortune buying run-down houses and fixing them up to sell.• The vehicles will be given to the National Association of Boys' Clubs and will tour run-down inner-city areas.• Or is the genuine Dublin culture to be found in the new sprawling suburbs with its run-down libraries and shopping malls?• I find a tiny winding street in the Marais that takes me to a shack in the courtyard of a run-down mansion.• The men were hiding in an abandoned theater in a run-down part of the city.• Meir Ahronson, wearing a bathrobe and a pair of run-down slippers, opened the door.• He was wearing a torn and spotted cotton bathrobe and a pair of run-down slippers.• After they had deposited their bags at the hotel, itself ramshackle and run-down, they had gone on to the hospital.• I was feeling too run-down to go for my morning jog.
From Longman Business Dictionary
run down phrasal verbphr v
1[transitiveT] run something → down to let an organization gradually become smaller or stop working
The coal industry is being slowly run down.
2[intransitiveI, transitiveT] run something → down to use a supply of something without replacing it
The Saudis have been running down their financial reserves.
They have let their sugar stocks run down to extremely low levels.
→ run
run-downˈrun-down adjectiveadjPROPERTY
a building or area that is run-down is in very bad condition
We have a contract to renovate five run-down apartment buildings.
ˌrun-ˈdown adjectiveadj
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run down

run down
phrasal verbphr v 
a) run somebody/something ↔ downTTHIT/BUMP INTO to drive into a person or animal and kill or injure them 〔开车〕撞死，撞伤
 Their daughter was run down by a car.
他们的女儿被车撞了。
b) run somebody/something ↔ down informalCRITICIZE to criticize someone or something in a way that is unfair 贬低；诋 毁；说…的坏话
 There’s a lot of good things about homeopathic treatment. I’m certainly not running it down.
顺势疗法有很多优点，我当然不是在贬低它。
c) TMCif a clock, machine, battery etc runs down, it has no more power and stops working 〔钟、机器等因缺乏动力〕停止；〔电池〕耗尽
d) REDUCEto make a company, organization etc gradually reduce in size, especially in order to close it in the future, or to gradually reduce in size （使）〔公司、组织等的规模〕逐渐缩减〔尤为了日后停办〕
run something ↔ down
 Many smaller local hospitals are being run down.
很多较小的地方医院都在逐渐缩减规模。
 The business had been running down for a long time.
该企业缩减规模已经有很长时间了。
e) if a supply of something runs down, or if you run it down, there gradually becomes less of it （使）〔供应〕逐渐减少
 Crude oil reserves are running down.
原油储备在逐渐缩减。
run something ↔ down
 Electricity generating companies are running down stocks and cutting purchases.
发电公司正在缩减备用物资，减少采购。
f) run down something to read a list of people or things 读〔名单〕
 Let me just run down the list of people who’ve been invited.
让我来读一下受邀者名单。
g) run somebody/something downFIND to find someone or something after searching for a long time 〔经过长时间寻找而〕找到某人/某物
 I finally ran him down at his new office in Glendale.
最后我在格伦代尔他的新办公室找到了他。
→ rundown, run-down
Examples from the Corpus
run down• They buy up rival companies then just run them down.• A lot of people feel run down in the winter months, when the days are short and there's very little sunlight.• Opposition leaders are accusing the government of running down the Health Service.• You're run down -- you need a vacation.
→ run down at run1(PHRASAL VERB)
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