run-downs
run-downs is the plural of run-down.
Meaning of run-down
Adjective
run-down (comparative more run-down, superlative most run-down)
- Tired and exhausted.
- Synonyms:
- out of gas, weary, bleareyed, bleary, bleary-eyed, bone-tired, bushed, tired out, spent, wrecked
- Decrepit.
- 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, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 12
- Synonyms:
- dilapidated, worse for wear, shabby, tacky, scroungy, mean, beat, beat up, beaten up, bedraggled
- Having the spring unwound.
Questions about run-downs
- What is run-downs the plural of?
- Run-downs is the plural of run-down.
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