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Dilapidate   /dəlˈæpədˌeɪt/   Listen
Dilapidate

verb
(past & past part. dilapidated; pres. part. dilapidating)
1.
Bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse.
2.
Fall into decay or ruin.  Synonyms: crumble, decay.





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"Dilapidate" Quotes from Famous Books



... poet Satchells's father) "had Southinrigg for his service" to Buccleuch, says Sir William Fraser, in his Memoirs of the House of Buccleuch. (See Satchells, 1892, pp. vii., viii.) But the "fathers" of Satchells "having dilapidate and engaged their Estate by Cautionary," poor Satchells was brought up as a cowherd, till he went to the wars, and never learned to write, or even, it seems, to read; as he says in the Dedication of his book to ...
— Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy • Andrew Lang
... mathematician. The Abbot of Aghabo (Queen's County) was canonized by Gregory IX, in 1233. The story of the second, or scapegoat, Virgil would be much damaged by the character given to the real bishop, if there were anything in it to dilapidate.—A. De M. ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan


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