runs down
Criticizes or exhausts
Runs down covers several related ideas of depletion and descent.
A battery runs down when it loses charge.
You run down a list by going through it item by item.
To run someone down is to chase and catch them, or to hit them with a vehicle, or to speak critically of them: She's always running down her ex-husband.
A rundown neighborhood has deteriorated from neglect.
If you're run down, you're exhausted or in poor health.
- depleteGreatly reduce supply
- malignsSpeaks falsely against
- declineDecrease or refuse
- denigratesCriticizes unfairly, damages reputation
- talks trashSpeaks to intimidate rivals
recounts · exhaust · cascade · decrease · narrates · drain · summarizes · belittles · describes · slanders · details · enumerates · goes over · ticks off · discredits · elaborates · explains · clarifies
- criticismscriticizes, disparages, condemns, denounces, censures
- consumeseats, devours, consumes, ingests, swallows
- exhaust partstailpipe, muffler, manifold, catalytic converter, exhaust pipe
runs downpraises
Verbally commends
builds up · talks up · extols · compliments · lauds
runs downrecharges
Restores electrical energy
charges up · powers up · replenishes · tops up · juices up
runs downbuilds up
Accumulates gradually
restores · renovates · refurbishes · revitalizes · rejuvenates
run, down, runs, running, runner, runners, runny, overrun, rerun