downfallen
Britishadjective
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(of a building, etc) decrepit
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(of a person) ruined; fallen
Example Sentences
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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
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
Peter was so "downfallen, so sick in the stomach that I never left my house."
From Time Magazine Archive
The bell-ringing and the band-playing, loud as Tamerlane's trumpet, goaded the downfallen Henchard indescribably: the ousting now seemed to him to be complete.
From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas
With an instinctive feeling for social solidarity they took the side of the downfallen police.
From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by France, Anatole
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