run-down en · ADJ
Etymology
Deverbal from run down.
Meanings
- (of a person) Tired and exhausted.
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(of a place) Decrepit.
Among its findings, the report says: "In recent years we have seen more stations transformed from run-down Victorian hulks, or spartan bus-sheltered platforms, into places that people can take pride in, feel comfortable in using, and which are fulfilling more of their wider potential.
2020 August 26, “Network News: Stations investment boosts regeneration, says report”, in Rail, page 17: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, […].
1958 January 14, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 12: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.
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page xiii, Preface:
- (of a clockwork mechanism) Having the spring unwound.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more run-down | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most run-down | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Synonyms
ramshackle · jiggered · exhausted · sleepy · beat up · zonked · beat · languid · beat · worse for wear · Kerry Packered · bedraggled · tuckered · crumbling · pumped · shagged · beaten up · tuckered out · spent · run-down · washed out · weariful · dilapidated · scroungy · knacked · worn · tired · dog-tired · done up · run-down · tired out · broken-down · stuffed · whipped · fried · draggled · nadgered · knackered · done · shot · heavyeyed · fagged out · worn out · buggered · pooped out · out of gas · forworn · whacked · wrecked · bushed · forlagen · derelict · bleary · busted · gassed · seedy · out of gas · bleary-eyed · shabby · neglected · shattered · cream crackered · bleareyed · tumbledown · fucked · drained · wappened · dog-weary · forfairn · tacky · pooped · jaded · weary · played out · done in · timeworn · ruinous · dead tired · dilapidated · fatigued · banjaxed · bone-tired · shagged out · mean · weary · enervated · tatterdemalion
Translations (13)
nl bouwvallig (of a place: decrepit) · cs utahaný (of a person: tired and exhausted) · es deteriorado (of a place: decrepit) · de heruntergekommen (of a person: tired and exhausted) · eo kaduka (of a place: decrepit) · nl vermoeid (of a person: tired and exhausted) · sv nedgången (of a place: decrepit) · nb nedslitt (of a place: decrepit) · cs vyčerpaný (of a person: tired and exhausted) · nl uitgeleefd (of a place: decrepit) · fi ränsistynyt (of a place: decrepit) · nl afgeleefd (of a person: tired and exhausted) · es decrépito (of a place: decrepit)