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单词 tumbledown
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tumbledown

But he picked himself up and struggled on past tumbledown horse jumps and rusty oil drums and down to the five-bar gate at the far end.My mother and me, we lived in an old tumbledown manor house overlooking the Bay.The moment he arrived at the tumbledown village on the edge of the cane fields he wished he hadn't bothered.
(adjective) 
Definition
(of a building) falling to pieces
bare hills and dusty tumbledown villages
Synonyms
dilapidated
She lived in a dilapidated old cottage.
ruined
a ruined church
crumbling
shaky
Our house will remain on shaky foundations unless the architect sorts out the basement.
disintegrating
tottering
ramshackle
a curious ramshackle building
rickety
She climbed the rickety wooden stairway.
decrepit
The film was shot in a decrepit police station.
falling to pieces
Opposites
firm
,
sound
,
solid
,
stable
,
substantial
,
sturdy
,
durable
,
well-kept

Additional synonyms

in the sense of decrepit
Definition
weakened or worn out by age or long use
The film was shot in a decrepit police station.
Synonyms
ruined,
broken-down,
battered,
crumbling,
rundown,
deteriorated,
decaying,
beat-up (informal),
shabby,
worn-out,
ramshackle,
dilapidated,
antiquated,
rickety,
weather-beaten,
tumbledown
in the sense of ramshackle
Definition
badly made or cared for
a curious ramshackle building
Synonyms
rickety,
broken-down,
crumbling,
shaky,
unsafe,
derelict,
flimsy,
tottering,
dilapidated,
decrepit,
unsteady,
tumbledown,
jerry-built
in the sense of rickety
Definition
likely to collapse or break
She climbed the rickety wooden stairway.
Synonyms
shaky,
broken,
weak,
broken-down,
frail,
insecure,
feeble,
precarious,
derelict,
flimsy,
wobbly,
imperfect,
tottering,
ramshackle,
dilapidated,
decrepit,
unsteady,
unsound,
infirm,
jerry-built

Nearby words of
tumbledown

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Synonyms of 'tumbledown'

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Additional synonyms

in the sense of ruined
a ruined church
Synonyms
dilapidated,
broken down,
falling apart,
derelict,
ramshackle,
dilapidated,
falling to pieces,
tumbledown
in the sense of shaky
Definition
weak and unsteady, esp. due to illness or shock
Our house will remain on shaky foundations unless the architect sorts out the basement.
Synonyms
unstable,
weak,
precarious,
tottering,
ramshackle,
dilapidated,
rickety,
unsteady,
wonky (British, informal)
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