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adjective

Dilapidated adj. Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect. "A deserted and dilapidated buildings."

verb

Dilapidate v. t. (past & past part. dilapidated; pres. part. dilapidating)

To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; said of a building. "If the bishop, parson, or vicar, etc., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony."

To impair by waste and abuse; to squander. "The patrimony of the bishopric of Oxon was much dilapidated."

Dilapidate v. i. To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate.

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Etymology of 'Dilapidated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dilapidated" Quotes from Famous Books

... of fashion there was one retired spot less widely known than Fox Hall or the Mulberry Garden, but which possessed a certain repute, and was affected rather by the exclusives than by the crowd. It was a dilapidated building of immemorial age, known as the "haunted Abbey," being, in fact, the refectory of a Cistercian monastery, of which all other remains had disappeared long ago. The Abbey had flourished in the lifetime of Sir Thomas More, and was mentioned in some of his familiar ...

— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon

... Wheeler dozing comfortably by the bar-room stove of the dilapidated tavern in the decaying mining camp of Angel's, and I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance. He roused up, and gave me good-day. I told him a friend of ...

— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)

... beauty was a delusion. When John Osgood's small boat swept up the sands on the white crest of a league-long roller, how different was the scene! He saw a group of dilapidated huts, a tavern called The Angel's Rest, a blackfellow's hut, and the bareness of three Government offices, all built on piles, that the white ants should not humble them suddenly to the dust; a fever-making ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... cracked and groaned under their feet, as if complaining of their weight, and threatening to precipitate them to the regions below. Opening the door of a little box of a room, out of which the hot air came rushing like a blast from a furnace fire, the porter placed the lamp upon a dilapidated wash-stand and the valise upon the floor, and without uttering a word, ...

— The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives • Allan Pinkerton

... hall from the back in front of the large central arch; it is raised ten feet above the floor, and is about ten feet wide, and covered by a marble canopy, all beautifully inlaid with mosaic work exquisitely finished, but now much dilapidated. The room or recess in which the throne stands is open to the front, and about fifteen feet wide and six deep. There is a door at the back by which the Emperor entered from his private apartments, and one on his left, from which his prime minister or chief officer of state ...

— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

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