run down

He was run down while crossing the main road.

Whatever the company says, the media is going to run them down.

I finally managed to run down that report. I had filed it incorrectly.

You need to wind up the clock every day so that it doesn't run down.

Running down the list of suggestions, I can see three we can discard immediately.

When the minute was up, John Jay managed to make the woman twice as nervous as he ran down the rules and the possibilities.

The board of directors have decided to run down the stocks held in storage prior to offering the company for sale.

to run down in health

to run down a stag

The Jylland only missed running down a schooner by a few yards in the fog; it was a near thing—near enough, in fact, to allow of some shouted remarks between those on the bridge of the motorship and the man at the wheel of the schooner to be clearly heard.

Religion is […] run down by the prevailing licence of these times.