run-down
English
Adjective
- (of a person) Tired and exhausted.
- (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.
- (of a clockwork mechanism) Having the spring unwound.
Translations
of a person: tired and exhausted
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of a place: decrepit
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