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run someone/thing to earth (or ground)1 Hunting Chase a quarry to its lair: they ran the fox to earth...- After being run to ground by hounds the fox was flushed out of its earth by a terrier and shot.
1.1British Find someone or something after a long search: last year, the police ran the fake paintings to ground...- He teamed up with the FBI and tracked Mitnick for two months, until they ran him to ground, surprising him in a Raleigh apartment, surrounded by telephone gear and fake driver's licenses.
- 680 million has poured into the state's coffers as tax evaders have been run to ground.
- Abrams was finally run to earth in 1991, pleading guilty to two misdemeanor counts of lying to Congress under oath, in order to avoid felony charges.
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