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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 〔建築物或地區〕破舊的，破落的
a run-down inner-city area
破舊的市中心貧民區
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.
你看上去有點疲倦。
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.

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 〔開車〕撞死，撞傷
Their daughter was run down by a car.
他們的女兒被車撞了。
b) run somebody/something ↔ down informalCRITICIZE to criticize someone or something in a way that is unfair 貶低；诋 毀；說…的壞話
There’s a lot of good things about homeopathic treatment. I’m certainly not running it down.
順勢療法有很多優點，我當然不是在貶低它。
c) TMCif a clock, machine, battery etc runs down, it has no more power and stops working 〔鐘、機器等因缺乏動力〕停止；〔電池〕耗盡
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、組織等的規模〕逐漸縮減〔尤爲了日後停辦〕
run something ↔ down
Many smaller local hospitals are being run down.
很多較小的地方醫院都在逐漸縮減規模。
The business had been running down for a long time.
該企業縮減規模已經有很長時間了。
e) if a supply of something runs down, or if you run it down, there gradually becomes less of it （使）〔供應〕逐漸減少
Crude oil reserves are running down.
原油儲備在逐漸縮減。
run something ↔ down
Electricity generating companies are running down stocks and cutting purchases.
發電公司正在縮減備用物資，減少采購。
f) run down something to read a list of people or things 讀〔名單〕
Let me just run down the list of people who’ve been invited.
讓我來讀一下受邀者名單。
g) run somebody/something downFIND to find someone or something after searching for a long time 〔經過長時間尋找而〕找到某人/某物
I finally ran him down at his new office in Glendale.
最後我在格倫代爾他的新辦公室找到了他。
→ 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)
ˌrun-ˈdown adjectiveadjrun down
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