tumbledown
/ˈtʌmb(ə)ldaʊn/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈtʌmb(ə)ldaʊn/
tumbledown
- Syllables
- 3 syllables
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- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Schwa vowel
- Ending
- Clear final sound
tum - ble - down -> tumbledown
Myanmar meaning
ပျက်စီးပြိုလဲနေသော၊ ပျက်စီးပြိုလဲပြီးသော၊ ပြိုလဲပျက်ကျနေသော။
Full entry
tumbledown /'tʌmbldaƱn/ adj
More examples
- ‘Princess Grace's three children became owners of the tumbledown cottage after her death.’
- ‘The court sat in a tumbledown building.’
- ‘The number of tumbledown cottages and derelict properties for sale is going down and building costs are going up.’
- ‘A group of security men suddenly emerge from a tumbledown shack, guns thrown over their shoulders as casually as jackets.’
- ‘He bought the tumbledown Villa.’
- ‘I was sick to death of filming green fields and hedgerows and tumbledown barns.’
- ‘These people live in tumbledown shacks which they share with whatever animals they may have.’
- ‘She and her sister Lucy were scrambling up a Ligurian hillside under the broiling Italian sun when they spotted a tumbledown house.’
- ‘After a very short stretch we came to a row of tumbledown shacks.’
- ‘Converting the tumbledown buildings could cost £2 million but he hopes to get help from outside organisations.’
- ‘Once just a set of tumbledown cottages, this is now a retreat centre.’
- ‘The streets are a hodgepodge of cheap housing next to restored buildings, interspersed with tumbledown shacks.’
- ‘Life in the tumbledown bathhouse seems hopelessly anachronistic.’
- ‘The programme will narrate the transformation of a tumbledown church into a striking home with a spectacular interior.’
- ‘In 1957, when the decision to restore them was taken, the tumbledown buildings were in a sorry state.’
- ‘This is more like the backwoods America of popular folklore, all tumbledown shacks and pick - up trucks.’
- ‘They live in tumbledown shacks.’
- ‘Three years ago we also bought an island with a tumbledown house off the Welsh coast.’
- ‘Due for auction on Wednesday, the future of the tumbledown structure now hangs in the balance.’
- ‘Permission to develop the site is not a formality but the presence of tumbledown outbuildings is usually looked upon favourably.’
Synonyms
fall, fall down, fall flat, take a fall, tumble, come clattering down, annihilative, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, crippling, crumbling, damaging, deadly, deleterious, depleting, derelict, dilapidated, dire, draining, exhausting, extravagant, fatal, fateful, harmful, hurtful, immoderate, impoverishing, injurious, murderous, noxious, pernicious, ramshackle, rickety, ruined, ruinous, run-down, rundown, shattering, suicidal, unfortunate, wasteful, withering, wrackful
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