tumbledown

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English

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Etymology

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Deverbal from tumble down.

Adjective

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tumbledown (comparative more tumbledown, superlative most tumbledown)

  1. in disrepair; poorly maintained
    They lived in a tumbledown shack on the edge of the woods.
    • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
      The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, — the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.

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