as in neglected
showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect
a dilapidated car that had seen better days
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Recent Examples of dilapidated
Duncan Madden,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
The Urban Institute detailed in 2024 how declining government funding for public spaces had left many dilapidated and underutilized, or privatized and no longer free.
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Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
26 May 2026
Despite the dilapidated state, the couple fell in love with its ancient olive trees, a creek and a network of aqueducts winding through the fields.
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Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
22 May 2026
There’s a dilapidated house near my apartment complex in Torrance.
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Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2026
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Adjective
Here cavernous sheet-metal market halls rub shoulders with dilapidated clapboard stores.
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Duncan Madden,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
The Urban Institute detailed in 2024 how declining government funding for public spaces had left many dilapidated and underutilized, or privatized and no longer free.
—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
26 May 2026
Despite the dilapidated state, the couple fell in love with its ancient olive trees, a creek and a network of aqueducts winding through the fields.
—
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
22 May 2026
There’s a dilapidated house near my apartment complex in Torrance.
—
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dilapidated
Adjective
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Changing their environment is more reliable and more neglected.
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Cinematographer Guillermo Garza shoots neglected settings like fine art, embracing the grime.
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The newest variants also rely more heavily on inertial navigation when satellite signals are degraded.
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With these actions, Israel almost certainly delayed and degraded some adversary capabilities, especially those of Hezbollah.
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According to the gallery, the 25-minute film is set in a semi-abandoned hotel near Tokyo and reimagines the Greek myth of the goddess Persephone’s abduction by Hades.
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The city has been overwhelmed in recent years by an influx of abandoned and stray dogs and puppies.
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Remains of dogs too decomposed to be recovered were also found in the same field, the sheriff's office said.
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Every project should be decomposed into tasks, with explicit categorization of which are human, AI or hybrid.
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Walking around the tiny outpost offers an understanding of just how vast and desolate this arid part of the country can be.
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In the summer it had been packed with people out on the streets, by the fall is was desolate.
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Systems must remain safe not only when components fail naturally, but when data is corrupted, communication is interrupted or execution is violated.
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And then Grisebach uses that distaff twist once again, to comment more broadly on the patriarchal nature and gendered violence of power structures corrupted by historical conflict.
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Remarkably, La Roja have failed to win a knockout round match in their last three World Cups, but expect Lamine Yamal and company to end that miserable run today.
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But the American job market has chugged along, continuing to rebound from a miserable 2025.
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The meteor — which is thought to be a small chunk of a much larger asteroid — was probably too small and traveled too fast to survive atmospheric entry and instead disintegrated entirely, leaving no parts of it to fall to the ground in the form of meteorites.
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Any potential scoring opportunity in the fifth inning disintegrated after Dalton Rushing’s leadoff walk.
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“Dilapidated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dilapidated. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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