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Definitions

tumbledown

ADJECTIVE
ruinous
Synonyms
WEAK
annihilative baleful baneful calamitous cataclysmic catastrophic crippling damaging deadly deleterious depleting dilapidated dire draining exhausting extravagant fatal fateful harmful hurtful immoderate impoverishing injurious murderous noxious pernicious ramshackle rundown shattering suicidal unfortunate wasteful withering wrackful

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A trip to the mailbox could become a tumbledown Niagara Falls.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

The project is in a tumbledown section of Oildale, situated between an optical lens store and aquatic pet shop.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2024

You can see how from Abu Khaled's tumbledown farmhouse, a bumpy few minutes' drive from the Palestinian village of Turmus Ayya.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2023

The saga in Welcome, an agglomeration of tumbledown farmhouses and newly built homes roped together by winding country roads, highlights several enduring American loves: guns, conspiracy theories, property rights and fruitless litigation.

From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2022

The Watkins family had a huge old gray barn and behind it, a tumbledown storage shack.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney