Definitions for run-down

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Spelling: [ruhn-doun]
IPA: /ˈrʌnˈdaʊn/

Run-Down is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in run-down (-dnnoruw).

Definitions for run-down

adjective

  1. fatigued; weary; exhausted.
  2. in a state of poor health:
  3. in neglected condition; fallen into disrepair:
  4. (of a spring-operated device) not running because it is unwound.

Origin of run-down

First recorded in 1675-85; adj. use of verb phrase run down

Examples for run-down

Washed out campaign posters of President Mohammed Morsi still hang on run-down buildings around the Sharqeyya governorate.

In 1970, the Green Lantern and Green Arrow put their powers aside and loaded themselves into a run-down pickup truck.

You've got no business in a run-down place like this— you with your fine clothes and your fine airs.

Though in your run-down condition you ought to have at least six.

The run-down farm was a hopeless sideline that supported the family.

It's the sleaziest, cheapest, most run-down tenement in one hemisphere, but I love it.

We are compelled to make our living and hers out of this run-down farm.

Let's put people back to work rebuilding vacant homes in run-down neighborhoods.

You enter the building and are walked up to what looks like a run-down orphanage.

Her trouble is a run-down, but the serious complication is her lungs.

Word Value for run-down
Scrable

3

Words with friends

5

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