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rundown
Unwound and not running:
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  1. Unwound and not running:
  2. Dirty and dilapidated:
  3. In poor physical condition; weak or exhausted.
neglected
Suffering from neglect.
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  1. Suffering from neglect.
tumbledown
Ready to tumble down; dilapidated
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  1. Ready to tumble down; dilapidated
  2. In disrepair; poorly maintained
  3. Being in such bad repair as to seem in danger of collapsing; very dilapidated or rickety:
ramshackle
2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova", The Guardian:
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  1. 2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova", The Guardian:
  2. Loose and rickety; likely to fall to pieces; shaky
  3. So poorly constructed or kept up that disintegration is likely; rickety:
ruinous
Falling to ruin; dilapidated or decayed.
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  1. Falling to ruin; dilapidated or decayed.
  2. Causing or apt to cause ruin; destructive:
  3. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
rundown
Unwound and not running:
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  1. Unwound and not running:
  2. Dirty and dilapidated:
  3. In poor physical condition; weak or exhausted.
tumbledown
Ready to tumble down; dilapidated
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  1. Ready to tumble down; dilapidated
  2. Being in such bad repair as to seem in danger of collapsing; very dilapidated or rickety:
  3. In disrepair; poorly maintained
bedraggled
Being in a condition of deterioration; dilapidated:
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  1. Being in a condition of deterioration; dilapidated:
  2. Wet, drenched, or messy:
  3. Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated
broken-down
Not properly maintained; neglected
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  1. Not properly maintained; neglected
  2. Sick or worn out, as by old age or disease
  3. No longer in working order
decrepit
Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use.
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  1. Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use.
dingy
Dirty-colored; not bright or clean; grimy
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  1. Dirty-colored; not bright or clean; grimy
  2. Dismal; shabby
  3. Shabby, drab, or squalid.
down-at-heel
Worn out from long use or neglect; dilapidated.
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  1. Worn out from long use or neglect; dilapidated.
  2. (Literally of footwear, hyphenated when used attributively) In poor condition, especially due to having worn heels; worn-out, shabby.
  3. Shabbily dressed because of poverty; seedy.
mangy
Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.
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  1. Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.
  2. Shabby or squalid:
  3. Shabby and filthy; sordid; squalid
rundown
In poor physical condition; weak or exhausted.
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  1. In poor physical condition; weak or exhausted.
  2. Dirty and dilapidated:
  3. Unwound and not running:
scrubby
Covered with or consisting of scrub, or brushwood
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  1. Covered with or consisting of scrub, or brushwood
  2. Paltry or shabby:
  3. Paltry, shabby, etc.
scruffy
(Chiefly British) Scaly; scabby.
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  1. (Chiefly British) Scaly; scabby.
  2. Untidy in appearance
  3. Shabby, unkempt, or untidy; grubby
seedy
Having tiny bubbles
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  1. Having tiny bubbles
  2. Worn and shabby; unkempt:
  3. Shabby, run-down, etc.
shabby
Wearing such clothing; seedy
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  1. Wearing such clothing; seedy
  2. Dilapidated or deteriorated in condition, especially through neglect; seedy:
  3. Showing signs of wear and tear; threadbare or worn-out:
shoddy
Made of any cheap, inferior material
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  1. Made of any cheap, inferior material
  2. Being of poor quality or construction
  3. Rundown; shabby.
sleazy
Flimsy or thin in texture or substance; lacking firmness
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  1. Flimsy or thin in texture or substance; lacking firmness
  2. (Informal) Shoddy, shabby, cheap, vulgar, etc.
  3. Shabby, dirty, and vulgar; tawdry:
tattered
Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged
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  1. Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged
  2. Wearing torn and ragged clothes
  3. Shabby or dilapidated.
tatty
Somewhat worn, shabby, or dilapidated.
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  1. Somewhat worn, shabby, or dilapidated.
  2. (Brit.) Shabby, decrepit, or tawdry
threadbare
Worn down so that the threads show; having the nap or surface fibers worn off
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  1. Worn down so that the threads show; having the nap or surface fibers worn off
  2. (Of a person) wearing clothes of threadbare material
  3. Wearing old, worn clothes; shabby
tacky
Dowdy or shabby, as in dress or appearance
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  1. Dowdy or shabby, as in dress or appearance
  2. Dowdy, shabbily dressed
  3. Lacking style or good taste; tawdry:
ratty
Full of rats
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  1. Full of rats
  2. Of or like a rat
  3. (Slang) Shabby or run-down
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  • On the east of the town at the foot of a hill stands a dilapidated fort.

  • A fire was made up in the dilapidated brick stove.

  • He continued through the streets and slowed when he reached a dilapidated, boarded-up church on a corner.

  • They had been concealed in a cellar to prevent their falling into the hands of the book-collecting princes of Pergamum, and were in a very dilapidated condition.

  • coast, is substantially built of stone, surrounded by a wall, and commanded by a dilapidated citadel; it is the residence of the sultan and of the French administrator.

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