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
"How in thunder did I make such a mistake!" said Tucker, with a somewhat downfallen air.
From A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" by Maher, William H.
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 Munro, Neil
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