What is "run down"

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them. 2 (context transitive English) To criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly. 3 (context transitive English) To find something or someone after searching for a long time. 4 (context transitive intransitive English) To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device. 5 (context transitive English) To read quickly a list or other short text. 6 (context British transitive English) To reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure. 7 To decline in condition. 8 (context hunting English) To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted. 9 (context nautical English) To run against and sink, as a vessel. 10 To crush; to overthrow; to overbear.

1. v. trace; "We are running down a few tips" [syn: check out]

2. move downward; "The water ran down"

3. injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle [syn: run over]

4. use up all one's strength and energy and stop working; "At the end of the march, I pooped out" [syn: poop out, peter out, run out, conk out]

5. examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, skim, rake, glance over]

6. deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength" [syn: exhaust, play out, sap, tire]

7. pursue until captured; "They ran down the fugitive"

Run down, also referred to as rundown, run dun, fling-me-far and fling mi for is a stew dish in Jamaican cuisine and Tobago cuisine that typically consists of fish, reduced coconut milk, yam, tomato, onion and seasonings. Mackerel and salted mackerel is often used in the dish. Other fish are also used, including locally-caught fish, cod, salt cod, shad other oily fish, red snapper and swordfish. Pickled fish, bull pizzle and cassava are also sometimes used. Traditionally, the dish is served with side dishes of dumplings and boiled green bananas. The dish is also sometimes accompanied with baked breadfruit. Run down is typically available in Jamaican restaurants, and is also a traditional Jamaican breakfast dish. The name appears to originate from the manner in which the fish is thoroughly cooked until it falls apart, or "runs down."

In coastal areas of Colombia, "rundown" refers to conch stew. This dish may be prepared with conch meat, salt pork, root vegetables, breadfruit and plantains cooked in coconut milk.

In Trinidad Grenada, and Barbados a similar dish that utilizes palm oil is referred to as "oil-down", which is generally prepared with salted beef or pork, breadfruit, palm oil and seasonings boiled in coconut milk until it reaches a thick consistency. This dish is similar to yumma, a Koongo dish.