dilapidated
Definition of dilapidated
: decayed, deteriorated, or fallen into partial ruin especially through neglect or misuse a dilapidated old house
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Examples of dilapidated in a Sentence
a dilapidated car that had seen better days
Recent Examples of dilapidated from the Web
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Or renovators like Caldwell and Robertson, picking up dilapidated homes and fixing them up to sell at a higher price.
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The neighbor climbed up onto a dilapidated fuel tank, put one half of a pair of broken binoculars to her eye, and scanned the ice.
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Choir Director, Emily Garlock, will earmark monies from the Mattress Fundraiser to replace the 10-year old dilapidated choir risers.
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The council also unanimously approved new regulations for dilapidated and unsafe buildings at those meetings.
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When the Church of Scientology secretly purchased the dilapidated 11-story Fort Harrison Hotel in this western Florida city in 1975, locals didn’t know what to make of their new neighbors.
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The suit alleges that Front St. owner Stephen Webster, a Newport entrepreneur, offered $1.8 million for the dilapidated wharf and an idle Bayfront processing plant owned by California Shellfish in 2015.
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That was provided by a dilapidated former boys camp in Lake Lure, N.C., where there was no active resort business to get in the way of filming.
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Building 20 at MIT, the home of fantastic engineering exploits like the improvement of radar, was likewise architecturally boring, almost dilapidated.
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Origin and Etymology of dilapidated
see dilapidate
DILAPIDATED Defined for English Language Learners
dilapidated
Definition of dilapidated for English Language Learners
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: in very bad condition because of age or lack of care
DILAPIDATED Defined for Kids
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Definition of dilapidated for Students
: falling apart or ruined from age or from lack of care a dilapidated car
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