Tumble-down

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    in deplorable condition wordnet

Example

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"Neighbors went hastily to the old tumble-down hut, in which she had secured little more than a place of shelter from summer heats and winter cold: some with grave-clothes for a decent interment of the body; and some with food for the half-starving children, three in number."

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