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run-down

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run-down in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. worn and broken down by hard use
    "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"
    creaky  decrepit  derelict  flea-bitten  run-down  woebegone 
  2. having the spring unwound
    "a run-down watch"
    run-down 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University


run-down in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (adjective) (context/of a person) tired and exhausted
  2. (adjective) (context/of a place) decrepit
  3. (adjective) (context/of a clockwork mechanism) having the spring unwound
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