adjective
- In deplorable condition.
- usage: "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
- synonyms: bedraggled, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down
- Not in working order.
- usage: "had to push the broken-down car"; "a broken-down tractor fit only for children to play on"
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