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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)

  1. Tired and exhausted.
  2. 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
  3. Having the spring unwound.

Questions about run-downs

What is run-downs the plural of?
Run-downs is the plural of run-down.

Words near run-downs in the dictionary

  1. run-away
  2. run-awayer
  3. run-awayers
  4. run-aways
  5. run-down
  6. run-downs
  7. run-flat
  8. run-flats
  9. run-in
  10. run-ins
  11. run-length encoding

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