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downfallen

British  
/ ˈdaʊnˌfɔːlən /

adjective

  1. (of a building, etc) decrepit

  2. (of a person) ruined; fallen

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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My advice for the next : Avoid national parks, and find something more actually downfallen, like abandoned shopping malls.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2013

Peter was so "downfallen, so sick in the stomach that I never left my house."

From Time Magazine Archive

By custom, the search for a new Premier to replace the downfallen Joseph Laniel began with the man who had been most vigorous in opposition.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hither, in the course of my incumbency, came a great variety of visitors, principally Americans, but including almost every other nationality on earth, especially the distressed and downfallen ones like those of Poland and Hungary.

From Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

And what loyal son of old Ireland's glory,  From Cork's cove of beauty, to Foyle's distant shore, Would not mourn the day, when, cold, lifeless and gory,  Brave forms downfallen, should rise never more?

From Canada and Other Poems by Young, T. F. (Thomas Frederick)

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