run yourself down
— phrasal verb with run uk/rʌn/us/rʌn/verb present participle running, past tense ran, past participle run
to make yourself tired and ill:
Since he took that extra job, he's really run himself down.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Deteriorating and making worse
- a step backwards idiom
- a turn of the screw idiom
- add
- afford
- aggravate
- backslide
- compound
- decline
- degrade
- disintegrate
- dog
- downgrade
- downhill
- exacerbate
- regress
- retrograde
- retrogress
- seed
- slip
- slippery slope
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