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Definition of Run-down
1. Adjective. Worn and broken down by hard use. "A woebegone old shack"
2. Adjective. Having the spring unwound. "A run-down watch"
Definition of Run-down
1. Adjective. (context: of a person) Tired and exhausted. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a place) Decrepit. ¹
3. Adjective. (context: of a clockwork mechanism) having the spring unwound. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Run-down
Literary usage of Run-down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1886)
"THE GIRLS' TRICYCLE CLUB AND ITS RUN DOWN THE CAPE. BY E. VINTON BLAKE. TRICYCLES had
become an every-day affair in ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"... for the source of the main stream, still the line must run down that lowest
water course to the south fork, and down the south fork to the old line. ..."
3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Am Econ R 5:805-15 D '15 Building up the run-down farm. OR Geyer. Country Life
29:16.) Ap '16 Land tenure reform and democracy. G: E. Putnam. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... had a considerable declivity, a ship which had taken the ground on the beach
near low water mark was actually run down and damaged by another stranded ..."
5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"the former run down the stem; the top is pale grey, which becomes darker as the
plants get older. Mrs. Hussey reports well of the oyster-fungus, ..."
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