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Definition of: run-down
(run′doun′) adjective
1. Debilitated; physically weak; tired out.
2. Dilapidated; shabby.
3. Stopped because not wound: said of a timepiece.
—noun (run′doun′).
1. A summary; resumé.
2. In baseball, a play in which a base runner is put out when trapped between two bases.
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