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Meanings of run-down in English
Synonyms
Examples for "derelict"
Examples for "derelict"
1
Turning back, Rardove sailed a brief look over the young, derelict soldiers.
2
The building seemed even more derelict than it had twenty minutes ago.
3
Property porn was a great escape: derelict castles, run-down farms, lighthouse conversions.
4
Some promoters didn't share our concern, and staged events in derelict warehouses.
5
The city, the island, now carried the haunted feel of a derelict.
1
Tens of thousands of children enter Russia's decrepit orphanage system every year.
2
The decrepit regime Syria's president heads is getting really good at repression.
3
The second house was a converted detached garage in back, equally decrepit.
4
Its location in the middle of Dublin 4 belied its decrepit state.
5
Family after family arrives, each claiming a decrepit ancestor amid high-decibel greetings.
1
You have to add creaky voice and it means something totally different.
2
Analogous measures can be taken to keep creaky old operating systems working.
3
These creaky old tools could adapt better to how we work today.
4
Mr Verloc heard the creaky plank in the floor, and was content.
5
Then I heard the scraping of a creaky portal on the floor.
1
At once his countenance fell; he turned upon me a woebegone eye.
2
Withhold not Thy countenance from the tears and beseechings of the woebegone.
3
The boys groaned in unison at this, and even Betty looked woebegone.
4
The Wobegon Boy in question, John Tollefson, should be anything but woebegone.
5
She looked very pale and woebegone when she came down to breakfast.
1
The last thing Lucius needed was a flea-bitten monster disrupting his household.
2
You flea-bitten harpy, have not you had enough of me today?
3
You are worse than a dog, you old flinty-faced, flea-bitten scrub.
4
He was a mouse-coloured, slate-coloured, flea-bitten roan- dun, if you can conceive it.
5
Gertie was skinny and flea-bitten, but she started licking my face.
Usage of run-down in English
1
Nodding without really understanding, Luke indicated the run-down though obviously popular cantina.
2
It is far from the stereotypical image of a run-down city suburb.
3
Although the house was run-down, the land itself was a gold mine.
4
He gave a run-down on the relatively new science of marine bio-acoustics.
5
But truly, Marianne, this place was almost as run-down as Woods House.
6
Let's put people back to work rebuilding vacant homes in run-down neighborhoods.
7
Yes, a run-down of what the questioner has done in the past.
8
That was two days after Tom met Rose in the run-down summerhouse.
9
Another run-down, fix-it-up farm in this family was out of the question.
10
Here's a quick run-down of my weekend, with plenty of visual aids.
11
Weak, run-down boars and sows produce inferior pigs and usually small litters.
12
Valentine lives in a run-down apartment building just north of Opa-locka airport.
13
Luke studied the run-down structures and equally unwholesome-looking individuals they were passing.
14
She halted at a grimy, run-down apartment building and closed the umbrella.
15
He was feeling run-down and tired, like he was fighting a cold.
16
Brittle Paper gives a run-down of the contenders for this year's award.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common