ready to tumble down; dilapidated
tumbledown
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tumbledown
adjective
Being in such bad repair as to seem in danger of collapsing; very dilapidated or rickety: a tumbledown shack.
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Adjective
(comparative more tumbledown, superlative most tumbledown)
- in disrepair; poorly maintained
- They lived in a tumbledown shack on the edge of the woods.
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