tumble-down
[tuhm-buh l-doun]
adjective
dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
Origin of tumble-down
First recorded in 1810–20
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Related Words for tumbledown
baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, damaging, deadly, deleterious, dilapidated, dire, exhausting, extravagant, fatal, fateful, harmful, hurtful, immoderate, injurious, murderous, noxiousExamples from the Web for tumbledown
Contemporary Examples of tumbledown
But Tumbledown is worth sticking with, though, and it blossoms in surprising ways.
Historical Examples of tumbledown
As he spoke he mounted a flight of steps to a tumbledown veranda.
Carmena reined in to jerk her thumb at a tumbledown brush hut.
Bloom of CactusRobert Ames Bennet
It held its sittings in a tumbledown building in an obscure Calcutta lane.
My ReminiscencesRabindranath Tagore
Farina beheld the Thier at the entrance of a tumbledown tent.
The Short Works of George MeredithGeorge Meredith
She noticed a small, tumbledown cottage which stood at the edge of a ravine.
The Deserted YachtMildred A. Wirt, AKA Ann Wirt
tumbledown
adjective
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