run-down house

collocation in English

meaningsofrun-downandhouse

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run-down
adjective
uk
/ˌrʌnˈdaʊn/us
/ˌrʌnˈdaʊn/
Run-down buildings or areas are in very ...
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house
noun
uk
/haʊs/us
/haʊs/
a building that people, usually one family, ...
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(Definition ofrun-downandhousefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The music video features all band members performing in an old,run-downhouse.
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It was in this ramshackle andrun-downhousethat they found an illegal way of borrowing electricity from the house next door.
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He is making a humble living working as a doorman and lives in a small,run-downhouse.
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He left school at a young age and worked hard, and while still a teenager, he bought arun-downhouseand repaired it.
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On an island, she discovers two more relatives living in arun-downhouse.
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An exemplary student, she aspires to raise both herself and her aunt out of theirrun-downhouseand the poverty it signifies.
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Living in arun-downhousebeside a railway track, he suffers neglect from his family.
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Fredrik lives a reclusive and somewhat austere lifestyle in arun-downhouse, enjoying few luxuries.
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Jennifer survives, living in arun-downhousein the woods for a month, eating bugs, rodents, and garbage.
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The streets were mostly made up of old, irregular and run-down houses.
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