run down vs slam

run down

verb
  • To criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly. 

  • To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted. 

  • To describe in the form of a rundown, a rough outline or summary. 

  • To reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure. 

  • To run against and sink, as a vessel. 

  • To read quickly a list or other short text. 

  • To find something or someone after searching for a long time. 

  • To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device. 

  • To decline in quality or condition. 

  • To crush; to overthrow; to overbear. 

  • To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them. 

slam

verb
  • To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully. 

  • To defeat or overcome in a match. 

  • To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent. 

  • To compete in a poetry slam. 

  • To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk. 

  • To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand. 

  • To make a slam bid. 

  • To occupy and busy with a high workload. 

  • To strike against suddenly and heavily. 

  • To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise. 

  • To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time. 

  • To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail. 

  • To inject intravenously; shoot up. 

  • To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.) 

  • To drink off, to drink quickly. 

  • To strike forcefully with some implement. 

noun
  • An insult. 

  • Losing or winning all the tricks in a game. 

  • A slambook. 

  • The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object. 

  • Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season. 

  • A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs 

  • A slam dunk. 

  • A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules. 

  • A sudden impact or blow. 

  • A poetry slam. 

  • A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump. 

  • The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product. 

  • One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events. 

How often have the words run down and slam occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )