tumble down
Crumble and descend
Tumble down describes something dilapidated or falling apart from neglect: a tumble-down farmhouse, tumble-down walls.
The image is of a structure so deteriorated it seems ready to collapse.
Often hyphenated.
As a verb phrase, to tumble down is simply to fall: The toddler tumbled down the stairs.
- toppleCause to fall
- fallDescend under gravity
- crumbleFragment gradually
- ramshackleBadly deteriorated from neglect
- collapseSudden structural failure
cave in · rubble · rickety · decrepit · falling apart · ruins · derelict · decay · dilapidated · tottering · condemned · weaken · erode · disintegrate · plummet · wreckage · deteriorate · fall to pieces
structural condition
tumble downsturdy
Solidly built, durable
solid · sound · well-built · structurally sound · robust