Run-down means old and falling apart after years without repair. Peeling paint, broken guttering, and nobody attending to it.
It describes buildings and areas above all, so a run-down estate and a run-down hotel are both standard. Applied to a person it means exhausted and slightly unwell, which is a quite separate sense: feeling run-down is what you say before a cold arrives. There is also a noun written as one word, since a rundown is a summary, and the verb run down means to hit somebody with a vehicle or to criticise them.
1adjectiverun-downIn poor condition after neglect.
“They bought a run-down cottage and spent a year on it.”
2adjectivetiredTired and in poor health.
“He had been feeling run-down for weeks.”
Also accepted in games: dilapidated, shabby
Deverbal from run down.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Around the House, Phrasal Verbs, A Man Called Ove
First appears in chapter 8 of A Man Called Ove.
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