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tumble-down
adjective as in decrepit
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adjective as in dilapidated
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adjective as in ramshackle
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adjective as in rickety
adjective as in run down
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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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On this page you'll find 204 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tumble-down, such as: battered, broken-down, creaky, dilapidated, feeble, and flimsy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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