run-down

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run-down

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Deverbal from run down.

adjective more run-down · most run-down

of a person Tired and exhausted.
Similar: out of gas, weary, bleareyed, bleary, bleary-eyed, bone-tired, bushed, tired out, spent, wrecked, drained, dog-tired
of a place Decrepit. The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […].
Similar: dilapidated, worse for wear, shabby, tacky, scroungy, mean, beat, beat up, beaten up, bedraggled, broken-down, crumbling
of a clockwork mechanism Having the spring unwound.

noun run-downs

alternative Alternative form of rundown Shepard: Give me a run-down of the damage. Avina: We have lost all primary power to the level. Environmental controls are not responding. Class three fires are burning in sectors 2, 3, 6 and 7. Civilian casualties are high.

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adj of a person: tired and exhausted

Deutsch	heruntergekommen

adj of a place: decrepit

Español	deteriorado, decrépito

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@misc{run_down_2026,
  title = {run-down},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/run-down},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}