- tumbledown
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adjective
Date: 1818
dilapidated, ramshackle <a tumbledown house at the edge of town — Sherwood Anderson>
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tumbledown
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tumbledown — [tum′bəldoun΄] adj. ready to tumble down; dilapidated * * * tum·ble·down (tŭmʹbəl doun ) adj. Being in such bad repair as to seem in danger of collapsing; very dilapidated or rickety: a tumbledown shack. * * * … Universalium
tumbledown — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ falling or fallen into ruin; dilapidated … English terms dictionary
tumbledown — [tum′bəldoun΄] adj. ready to tumble down; dilapidated … English World dictionary
Tumbledown — Infobox Television show name = Tumbledown caption = BBC DVD Cover aka = genre = Docudrama creator = writer = Charles Wood director = Richard Eyre creat director = starring = nowrap beginColin Firth·wrap Paul Rhys·wrap David Caldernowrap end… … Wikipedia
tumbledown — tum|ble|down [ˈtʌmbəldaun] adj [only before noun] a tumbledown building is old and beginning to fall down ▪ a tumbledown cottage … Dictionary of contemporary English
tumbledown — adjective (only before noun) tumbledown building/house/cottage etc old and beginning to fall down, often in a way that seems attractive: a row of tumbledown labourer s cottages … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
tumbledown — adjective in disrepair; poorly maintained They lived in a tumbledown shack on the edge of the woods. Syn: bedraggled, broken down, dilapidated, ramshackle, ruinous … Wiktionary
tumbledown — adj. Tumbledown is used with these nouns: ↑building, ↑shack … Collocations dictionary
tumbledown — tum|ble|down [ tʌmbl,daun ] adjective a tumbledown building is old and in bad condition … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
tumbledown — [[t]tʌ̱mb(ə)ldaʊn[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n A tumbledown building is in such a bad condition that it is partly falling down or has holes in it. Syn: ramshackle … English dictionary
