From en.wiktionary.org:
[rundown]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
*** Verb
[run < ,,ran,run> down]
1. [en] To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them.
2. [en] To criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly .
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. [en] [en] To find something or someone after search ing for a long time.
6. [en] To lose power slowly. Used for a machine , battery , or other powered device.
7. [en] To read quickly a list or other short text.
8. [en] To describe in the form of a rundown , a rough outline or summary.
9. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2013 | author=Nora Roberts | title=The Name of the Game
|passage=When the minute was up, John Jay managed to make the woman twice as
nervous as he RAN DOWN the rules and the possibilities.}}
1. [en] To reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure .
2. * [en]
3. To decline in quality or condition.
4. * [en]
5. [en] To chase till the object pursued is capture d or exhausted .
6. [en] To run against and sink , as a vessel.
7. * [en]
8. * [en]
9. [en] To crush ; to overthrow ; to overbear .
10. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1736 | author=w:George Berkeley | title=A Discourse addressed to Magistrates and Men of Authority
|passage=Religion is [...] RUN DOWN by the prevailing licence of these
times.}}
1. [en] To approach (someone, thing or place) aggressively, as to attack.
2. [en] To move (some copy) down to the next line.
**** Usage notes
- In all transitive senses except that of “to read quickly”, the object can come before or after the particle. If the object is a pronoun, then it must come before the particle.
**** Synonyms
- [hit with a vehicle] [en] , [en]
- [criticise] [en] , [en] , [en]
- [locate] [en]
**** Translations
[to hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[to criticise]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to find something or someone after searching for a long time] [trans-bottom]
[to lose power slowly] [trans-bottom]
[to read quickly a list or other short text]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to reduce the size or stock levels of a business] [trans-bottom]
[to decline in condition] [trans-bottom]
[to chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[to run against and sink, as a vessel] [trans-bottom]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]