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
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
With an instinctive feeling for social solidarity they took the side of the downfallen police.
From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France
And the half-curtained recess, with the soiled and dog-eared documents of the law, was the evidence of how all this tragedy of a downfallen house had come about.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
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