Tumbledown definition

tŭmbəl-doun
Being in such bad repair as to seem in danger of collapsing; very dilapidated or rickety.

A tumbledown shack.

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Ready to tumble down; dilapidated.
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They lived in a tumbledown shack on the edge of the woods.

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Origin of tumbledown

Tumbledown Sentence Examples

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

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

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

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

  • In fact, it looked a bit like a crumbling, tumbledown barn.

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