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(1) Once just a set of tumbledown cottages, this is now a retreat centre.(2) I was sick to death of filming green fields and hedgerows and tumbledown barns.(3) She and her sister Lucy were scrambling up a Ligurian hillside under the broiling Italian sun when they spotted a tumbledown house.(4) The streets are a hodgepodge of cheap housing next to restored buildings, interspersed with tumbledown shacks.(5) In 1957, when the decision to restore them was taken, the tumbledown buildings were in a sorry state.(6) These people live in tumbledown shacks which they share with whatever animals they may have.(7) He bought the tumbledown Villa.(8) Permission to develop the site is not a formality but the presence of tumbledown outbuildings is usually looked upon favourably.(9) Due for auction on Wednesday, the future of the tumbledown structure now hangs in the balance.(10) A group of security men suddenly emerge from a tumbledown shack, guns thrown over their shoulders as casually as jackets.(11) This is more like the backwoods America of popular folklore, all tumbledown shacks and pick - up trucks.(12) The number of tumbledown cottages and derelict properties for sale is going down and building costs are going up.(13) After a very short stretch we came to a row of tumbledown shacks.(14) The court sat in a tumbledown building.(15) Three years ago we also bought an island with a tumbledown house off the Welsh coast.(16) Life in the tumbledown bathhouse seems hopelessly anachronistic.
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(1) tumble-down
Synonyms
Adjective
1. dilapidated
2. ramshackle
3. decrepit
4. neglected
5. beat-up
6. run-down
7. falling to pieces
9. derelict
11. rickety
12. shaky


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