run to ground

run somebody to ground

(British & Australian)

to find someone after searching for a long time Chinese detectives ran him to ground in a Shanghai night club.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Enis	-	Bosnian
Naamah	NAY-ə-mə (English), nah-ah-MAH (Jewish)	Biblical, Hebrew
ViỆN	-	Vietnamese
Hart	[ha:t]
Hope	[həup]
Jaumet	-	Catalan