tumble-down

[tuhm-buh l-doun]

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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, noxious

Examples from the Web for tumbledown

Contemporary Examples of tumbledown

But Tumbledown is worth sticking with, though, and it blossoms in surprising ways.
A Bar of Paranoid Schizos: Robert Boswell’s ‘Tumbledown’
Drew Toal
August 6, 2013

Historical Examples of tumbledown

As he spoke he mounted a flight of steps to a tumbledown veranda.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930
Various
Carmena reined in to jerk her thumb at a tumbledown brush hut.
Bloom of Cactus
Robert Ames Bennet
It held its sittings in a tumbledown building in an obscure Calcutta lane.
My Reminiscences
Rabindranath Tagore
Farina beheld the Thier at the entrance of a tumbledown tent.
The Short Works of George Meredith
George Meredith
She noticed a small, tumbledown cottage which stood at the edge of a ravine.
The Deserted Yacht
Mildred A. Wirt, AKA Ann Wirt

British Dictionary definitions for tumbledown

tumbledown

adjective

falling to pieces; dilapidated; crumbling

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