tumble-down

[ tuhm-buh l-doun ]

/ ˈtʌm bəlˌdaʊn /

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adjective

dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.

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Nearby words

tumble, tumble cart, tumble dryer, tumble home, tumble to, tumble-down, tumble-dry, tumblebug, tumbledown, tumblehome, tumbler

Origin of tumble-down

First recorded in 1810–20

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Examples from the Web for 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|DAILY BEAST
The rubbish heaps and the tumbledown houses are hidden in the "poetical and silent lap of darkness."
Stories and Pictures|Isaac Loeb Peretz
Seeing the miserable, tumbledown hut with its smoking chimney, he stopped.
Great Opera Stories|Millicent Schwab Bender
Now the booming ground was empty, save for those decaying, teredo-eaten sticks, and the camp was a tumbledown ruin when he passed.
The Hidden Places|Bertrand W. Sinclair

They live mostly in tumbledown shacks not far from the mill.
Marjorie Dean High School Senior|Pauline Lester
Some months before, the financier had bought, in the name of John Rivière, a tumbledown villa on the outskirts of Neuilly.
Swirling Waters|Max Rittenberg

British Dictionary definitions for tumbledown

tumbledown

/ (ˈtʌmbəlˌdaʊn) /

adjective

falling to pieces; dilapidated; crumbling

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