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View synonyms for tumble-down

tumble-down

[ tuhm-buhl-doun ]

adjective

  1. dilapidated; ruined; rundown:

    He lived in a tumble-down shack.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of tumble-down1

First recorded in 1810–20

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Example Sentences

In another scene from the Schwartzman shoot, Sternberg instructed his subject to tumble down a rusty flight of stairs.

He could hardly walk up the rickety front steps of the old tumble-down house, and his thirteen-year-old son had to help him.

The third skulker took advantage of the cessation of firing to tumble down from his perch and fly for his life.

I hope you will appreciate my devotion; in a tumble-down old house, near the ramparts.

I didn't exactly tumble down the entire sheer height in a single fall; if I had I shouldn't be here to tell you.

Pullen, he says as there's a tumble-down lime-kiln in that hollow.

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