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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ruhn-doun |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈrʌnˌdaʊn |
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Définition of rundown
Origin :- in baseball, 1908, from verbal phrase, from run (v.) + down (adv.). Meaning "list of entries in a horse race and the odds" is from 1935; slang generalized sense of "summary, account, list of information or facts" is from 1945.
- noun summary
- Greg drove from the rundown district faster than the law allowed.
- Extract from : « Cancer World » by Harry Warner
- Then her glance swept him swiftly from bared head to rundown heel.
- Extract from : « Overland Red » by Henry Herbert Knibbs
- But he was in a dreadfully exhausted and rundown condition—nearly starved indeed.
- Extract from : « The Angel » by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
- Between mouthfuls, the two older people gave him a rundown on the morning's mishaps.
- Extract from : « Make Mine Homogenized » by Rick Raphael
- A northerner passing a rundown looking place in the South, stopped to chat with the farmer.
- Extract from : « Toaster's Handbook » by Peggy Edmund and Harold W. Williams, compilers
- At the supper table he was as mum as a rundown clock; just set in his chair and looked at Mrs. Badger.
- Extract from : « Cape Cod Stories » by Joseph C. Lincoln
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