Tumbledown Definition

tŭmbəl-doun
adjective
Being in such bad repair as to seem in danger of collapsing; very dilapidated or rickety.
A tumbledown shack.
American Heritage
Ready to tumble down; dilapidated.
Webster's New World

In disrepair; poorly maintained.

They lived in a tumbledown shack on the edge of the woods.
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Tumbledown Sentence Examples

  • Often a noise has come from the side of some tumbledown building.

  • A little orphan girl lives with her cruel aunt in a rambling, tumbledown house.

  • He dwelt in a humble tumbledown cottage in Bovey Tracey, to be exact in Church Street.

  • He lay fast asleep in the shelter of a tumbledown building buried beneath a massive and almost impenetrable thicket of thorns.

  • Our favourite walk was to Keller's Landing, an old tumbledown lumber-wharf on the Tennessee River, used during the Civil War to land soldiers.

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