"run down the clock" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "runs down the clock",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "running down the clock",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ran down the clock",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "run down the clock",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "run<,,ran,run> down the clock"
      },
      "expansion": "run down the clock (third-person singular simple present runs down the clock, present participle running down the clock, simple past ran down the clock, past participle run down the clock)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sports",
          "orig": "en:Sports",
          "parents": [
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC",
          "text": "Energetic Malouda was denied twice by Jussi Jaaskelainen late on before Ancelotti ran down the clock by introducing Salomon Kalou and Paulo Ferreira in the closing seconds as Chelsea arrested their slide.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To waste time at the end of a match such that it is terminated by running out of time, or during a match so a time penalty is made less severe."
      ],
      "id": "en-run_down_the_clock-en-verb-vigetiE~",
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "waste time",
          "waste time"
        ],
        [
          "match",
          "match"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, sports) To waste time at the end of a match such that it is terminated by running out of time, or during a match so a time penalty is made less severe."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "run out the clock"
        },
        {
          "word": "run the clock down"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-run down the clock.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/92/En-au-run_down_the_clock.ogg/En-au-run_down_the_clock.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/En-au-run_down_the_clock.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "run down the clock"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "runs down the clock",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "running down the clock",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ran down the clock",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "run down the clock",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "run<,,ran,run> down the clock"
      },
      "expansion": "run down the clock (third-person singular simple present runs down the clock, present participle running down the clock, simple past ran down the clock, past participle run down the clock)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "en:Sports"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC",
          "text": "Energetic Malouda was denied twice by Jussi Jaaskelainen late on before Ancelotti ran down the clock by introducing Salomon Kalou and Paulo Ferreira in the closing seconds as Chelsea arrested their slide.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To waste time at the end of a match such that it is terminated by running out of time, or during a match so a time penalty is made less severe."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "waste time",
          "waste time"
        ],
        [
          "match",
          "match"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, sports) To waste time at the end of a match such that it is terminated by running out of time, or during a match so a time penalty is made less severe."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-run down the clock.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/92/En-au-run_down_the_clock.ogg/En-au-run_down_the_clock.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/En-au-run_down_the_clock.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "run out the clock"
    },
    {
      "word": "run the clock down"
    }
  ],
  "word": "run down the clock"
}