run sb/sth down
— phrasal verb with run uk/rʌn/us/rʌn/verb present participle running, past tense ran, past participle run
(CRITICIZE)
C1 informal to criticize someone or something, often unfairly:
He's always running himself down.
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Disapproving & criticizing
- -basher
- animadversion
- aspersions
- backbite
- bad-mouth
- belabour
- damn
- damn sb with faint praise idiom
- denounce
- dig
- disapproval
- give sb hell idiom
- lashing
- pitch into sb/sth
- pound
- pound away at sth/sb
- pull sth apart
- put the boot in idiom
- take a dim view of sth idiom
- throw
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(HIT)
to hit and injure a person or animal with a vehicle, especially intentionally:
Two masked men on motorbikes tried to run me down.
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On the road: accidents involving vehicles
- car crash
- collide
- collision
- crash
- crash-land
- fender bender
- head-on
- jackknife
- knock
- overshoot
- plough
- rear-end
- road toll
- run (sth) down
- run sb/sth over
- sideswipe
- skid
- stack up
- wipe
- write-off
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Hitting against objects accidentally and colliding
(FIND)
to find someone or something after following or searching for him, her, or it for a long time:
I finally ran Mr Green down in/to a house in the country.
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Finding and discovering
- a fishing expedition idiom
- alight
- ascertain
- break fresh/new ground idiom
- breakthrough
- catch sb red-handed idiom
- flush
- get hold of idiom
- get wind of sth idiom
- happen
- happen on/upon sth/sb
- have a (good) nose for sth idiom
- rediscover
- root sth/sb out
- run sb/sth to ground idiom
- scent
- search
- search sth/sb out
- smell
- stumble
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