Usually means: Deteriorated due to neglect, use.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. run-down: Merriam-Webster
  2. run-down: Collins English Dictionary
  3. run-down: Vocabulary.com
  4. Run-down, run-down: Wordnik
  5. run-down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. run-down: Wiktionary
  7. run-down: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. run-down: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. run-down: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. run-down: Dictionary.com
  11. run-down: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. run-down: Rhymezone
  13. run-down: FreeDictionary.org
  14. run-down: ESL Idiom Page
  15. run-down: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. run-down: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run-down: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run-down: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run-down: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of a person) Tired and exhausted.
adjective:  (of a place) Decrepit.
adjective:  (of a clockwork mechanism) Having the spring unwound.
noun:  Alternative form of rundown [(chiefly with definite article "the") A rough outline of a topic or situation.]

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