TUMBLE-DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tumble-down mean? 

• TUMBLE-DOWN (adjective)
  The adjective TUMBLE-DOWN has 1 sense:

1. in deplorable condition

  Familiarity information: TUMBLE-DOWN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUMBLE-DOWN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In deplorable condition

Synonyms:

bedraggled; broken-down; derelict; dilapidated; ramshackle; tatterdemalion; tumble-down

Context example:

a tumble-down shack

Similar:

damaged (harmed or injured or spoiled)

 Context examples 

The Micawber family were lodged in a little, dirty, tumble-down public-house, which in those days was close to the stairs, and whose protruding wooden rooms overhung the river.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There were two rough-haired, unkempt horses in the tumble-down stable.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a wonderful instance to me of the gap such partings make, that although my association of them with the tumble-down public-house and the wooden stairs dated only from last night, both seemed dreary and deserted, now that they were gone.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)