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adjective

də-ˈla-pə-ˌdā-təd How to pronounce dilapidated (audio)
Definition of dilapidatednext
as in neglected
showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect a dilapidated car that had seen better days

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verb

past tense of dilapidate
as in degraded

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Recent Examples of dilapidated
Adjective
The parents and grandparents of 16 children found living in a dilapidated house in southern Ohio were arraigned Wednesday on more than a dozen felony child endangerment charges, officials said. — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 1 July 2026 His apartment was on the ground floor of a clapboard building along a block of dilapidated homes surrounded by overgrown weeds. — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 30 June 2026 Unable to pay rent, the boys moved several hours away to the small, dilapidated house with the leaky roof where rent is minimal. — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 18 June 2026 Google reviews show the Super 8 in West Haven deteriorating to poor service and dilapidated rooms and finally permanently closed. — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 6 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for dilapidated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dilapidated
  1. neglected
  2. degraded
  3. abandoned
  4. decomposed
  5. desolate
  6. corrupted
  7. miserable
  8. disintegrated
Adjective
  • Changing their environment is more reliable and more neglected.
    — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Cinematographer Guillermo Garza shoots neglected settings like fine art, embracing the grime.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2026
Definition of neglected
Verb
  • Perhaps, then, what captivates us is a kind of redemption story—the seductive idea that technology can not only repair nature but absolve us for having degraded it.
    — Taylor Dotson, Scientific American, 10 July 2026
  • Israel’s military campaigns have significantly degraded Hezbollah, while public opinion in Lebanon has increasingly turned against the group, blaming it for repeatedly dragging the country into unnecessary wars.
    — Anthony Wanis-St John, The Conversation, 10 July 2026
Definition of degraded
Adjective
  • 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.
    — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 16 June 2026
  • The city has been overwhelmed in recent years by an influx of abandoned and stray dogs and puppies.
    — Alyce McFadden, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026
Definition of abandoned
Verb
  • Remains of dogs too decomposed to be recovered were also found in the same field, the sheriff's office said.
    — Jose Fabian, CBS News, 27 June 2026
  • Every project should be decomposed into tasks, with explicit categorization of which are human, AI or hybrid.
    — Manu Khetan, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Definition of decomposed
Adjective
  • These poems, spare and sometimes desolate, teem with harsh realities and unadorned truths.
    — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 7 July 2026
  • In its vision of a desolate America ruled by tyranny and militia, the United States becomes, in the eyes of those who live in its pre-industrial ruins, an idealized symbol of better times.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 July 2026
Definition of desolate
Verb
  • The unsightly mushroom could have corrupted her maids’ morals, or even their health.
    — Leah Hudson, Popular Science, 9 July 2026
  • If religion is corrupted by breaking down the wall of separation, much the same is true of the state.
    — Kenneth Seeskin, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Definition of corrupted
Adjective
  • Their findings, some previously covered in Fortune, draw on a deep dataset spanning dozens of countries to confirm that ill-being is no longer hump-shaped in age — the young are now the most miserable cohort globally.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 6 July 2026
  • Aguirre’s red card against West Germany in 1986 started a miserable run for Mexico.
    — Colin Millar, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Definition of miserable
Verb
  • In the fifth century CE, the western half of the Roman Empire disintegrated into a patchwork of new kingdoms and new rulers.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • 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.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 16 June 2026
Definition of disintegrated

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