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Synonyms for running down

Grammar : Verb
Spell : ruhn
Phonetic Transcription : rÊŒn

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Définition of running down

Origin :
  • the modern verb is a merger of two related Old English words, in both of which the first letters sometimes switched places. The first is intransitive rinnan, irnan "to run, flow, run together" (past tense ran, past participle runnen), cognate with (cf. Middle Dutch runnen, Old Saxon, Old High German, Gothic rinnan, German rinnen "to flow, run").
  • The second is Old English transitive weak verb ærnan, earnan "ride, run to, reach, gain by running" (probably a metathesis of *rennan), from Proto-Germanic *rannjanan, causative of the root *ren- "to run." This is cognate with Old Saxon renian, Old High German rennen, German rennen, Gothic rannjan.
  • Both are from PIE *ri-ne-a-, nasalized form of root *reie- "to flow, run" (see Rhine).
  • Of streams, etc., from c.1200; of machinery, from 1560s. Meaning "be in charge of" is first attested 1861, originally American English. Meaning "seek office in an election" is from 1826, American English. Phrase run for it "take flight" is attested from 1640s. Many figurative uses are from horseracing or hunting (e.g. to run (something) into the ground, 1836, American English).
  • To run across "meet" is attested from 1855, American English. To run short "exhaust one's supply" is from 1752; to run out of in the same sense is from 1713. To run around with "consort with" is from 1887. Run away "flee in the face of danger" is from late 14c. To run late is from 1954.
  • verb ridicule
Example sentences :
  • The tears she was too proud to let him see were running down her face.
  • Extract from : « The Little Colonel » by Annie Fellows Johnston
  • The blood was running down his cheek and dyeing the whole side of his face.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • The water appeared to be running down an incline of about twenty degrees.
  • Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace
  • Perspiration was running down his face, and even his hands were wet with it.
  • Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
  • And after running down to the studio every day for three weeks, too.
  • Extract from : « The Film of Fear » by Arnold Fredericks
  • Running down to where the huskies were gathered, they cuffed them into silence, and there waited.
  • Extract from : « Murder Point » by Coningsby Dawson
  • The blood, which was running down his leg, made a little pool at his feet.
  • Extract from : « The Greater Power » by Harold Bindloss
  • Beads of cold sweat were gathering and running down his drawn face.
  • Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet
  • I confess that tears, tears of gratitude, were running down my face.
  • Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
  • Tears were running down Chuck's face, but he didn't even know it.
  • Extract from : « Phyllis » by Dorothy Whitehill

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