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running downverbpresent participle of run down to come upon after searching, study, or effortfinally ran down the answer after hours of research ascertaining, descrying, detecting, determining, digging out, digging up, discovering, dredging (up), ferreting (out), finding, finding out, getting, hitting (on or upon), hunting (down or up), learning, locating, nosing out, rooting (out), routing (out), rummaging, scaring up, scouting (up), tracking (down), turning up espying, sighting, spottinglooking for, searching (for or out), seeking missing, overlooking, passing over losing, mislaying, misplacing, missetting(or mis-setting) to express scornfully one's low opinion ofconstantly running down the city's cultural life won't do anything to improve it bad-mouthing, belittling, crying down, decrying, denigrating, deprecating, depreciating, derogating, diminishing, discounting, dismissing, disparaging, dissing(slang), kissing off, minimizing, playing down, poor-mouthing, putting down, talking down, trashing, trash-talking, vilipending, writing off discommendingabusing, scoldingdisapproving (of), dislikingcensuring, condemning, criticizing, denouncing, reprehending, reprobatingaspersing, defaming, maligning, ripping, slandering, slurring, traducing, vilifyingdiscrediting, disgracing dumping on acclaiming, applauding, exalting, extolling, glorifying, lauding, magnifying, praising approving, countenancing, endorsing(also indorsing), favoring, recommending, sanctioningcommending, complimenting, eulogizing |