run down
RUN DOWN
Intransitively defluere: delabi.
Transitively PROP. peragere aliquem (to run down without giving any rest Caelius in Cic. Ep. 8 8 1; Sen. Ep. 58 1): defatigare (to fatigue thoroughly).
Figuratively To calumniate defame Vid: RUN FROM Vid. DESERT ABANDON.
Intransitively defluere: delabi.
Transitively PROP. peragere aliquem (to run down without giving any rest Caelius in Cic. Ep. 8 8 1; Sen. Ep. 58 1): defatigare (to fatigue thoroughly).
Figuratively To calumniate defame Vid: RUN FROM Vid. DESERT ABANDON.
run down:
A. Trans.:
I. To drive forcibly against: expr. by rostro ferire: Liv. 37, 30 (quum rostro percussisset Sidoniam navem): or if nothing more than coming up with be meant (*navem) remis citatis consequi: v.TO OVERTAKE . Phr.: she ran down an Ionian ship as if it were an enemy, *in Ionicam navem tanquam hostilem impegit navem suam mersitque eam.
II. To cry down, depreciate: dētrecto, ēlĕvo, obtrecto (this last with dat.): v.TO DISPARAGE , MALIGN .
B. Intrans.: dēcurro, cŭcurri, and curri, 3: Curtius had r. down from the citadel, ab arce decucurrerat, Liv. 1, 12 a river r.ing down from the mountain, monte decurrens amnis, Hor. Od. 4, 2, 5: to have recourse for shelter: they r. down to their ships, ad naves decurrunt, Caes. B. C. 1, 28.
A. Trans.:
I. To drive forcibly against: expr. by rostro ferire: Liv. 37, 30 (quum rostro percussisset Sidoniam navem): or if nothing more than coming up with be meant (*navem) remis citatis consequi: v.
II. To cry down, depreciate: dētrecto, ēlĕvo, obtrecto (this last with dat.): v.
B. Intrans.: dēcurro, cŭcurri, and curri, 3: Curtius had r. down from the citadel, ab arce decucurrerat, Liv. 1, 12 a river r.ing down from the mountain, monte decurrens amnis, Hor. Od. 4, 2, 5: to have recourse for shelter: they r. down to their ships, ad naves decurrunt, Caes. B. C. 1, 28.
run down or off: dēfluo, 3: the countryman waits till the river r.s off, dum defluat amnis, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 42: v. TO FLOW .