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tumble-down
[ tuhm-buhl-doun ]
adjective
- dilapidated; ruined; rundown:
He lived in a tumble-down shack.
Word History and Origins
Origin of tumble-down1
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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