run-down

See also: rundown and run down

English

Adjective

run-down

1. (of a person) Tired and exhausted.
2. (of a place) Decrepit.
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page xiii, Preface:

     In the Seventies the system was run-down and demoralised. Road transport was the future, the Underground was being 'managed for decline', and the system was filthier than the streets above.

3. (of a clockwork mechanism) Having the spring unwound.

Translations

of a person: tired and exhausted

• German: heruntergekommen (de)
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of a place: decrepit

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nedslitt

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Translations to be checked

• Maori: pūwhāwhā
• Portuguese: decrépito (pt), caindo aos pedaços
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• Swedish: nedgången (sv) (2)

Anagrams

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