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run-down

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The heat makes beads of sweat run down your armpits and traverse your hips before dampening your drawers.

He blamed the Ukrainians for letting it get run down, and he cut the round-trip air fare from Moscow almost in half.

His first shows were in Asbury Park, at a small run down Convention Hall that appeared destined for the wrecking ball.

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

Having run down her charges, I don't even feel the need to go through all of Pletka's absurd rebuttals to Hagel defenders.

Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?

In 1864 the railway was in a very bad condition, wretchedly run down, and woefully mismanaged.

If you see us come down this way again, honey,” Amy said, “run down here to the shore and we will take you aboard.

That place is less than a hundred miles from Chicago and we can just run down there today and back this evening!

Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.

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On this page you'll find 57 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to run-down, such as: deserted, desolate, dilapidated, broken-down, neglected, and dingy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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