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Tumble-down

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Tum´ble-down`
a.1.Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.
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Adj.1.Tumble-downtumble-down - in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, bedraggled, derelict
damaged - harmed or injured or spoiled; "I won't buy damaged goods"; "the storm left a wake of badly damaged buildings"


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The old woman said, 'If you would help yourselves, one of you must go into the wood, and there he will come upon a tumble-down building of rocks which looks like a little house.
The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context
That he had great hoards of ill-gotten gold buried somewhere about his tumble-down dwelling was not reasonably to be doubted by any honest soul conversant with the facts of local tradition and gifted with a sense of the fitness of things.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table.
The Adventures Of Pinocchio by Collodi, Carlo View in context
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