DILAPIDATES Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

dilapidates

verb

present tense third-person singular of dilapidate

as in putrefies

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Wheeler breaks down her actionable, high-yield steps for parents with kids of all ages who want to lower their bills right now.

— Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 31 July 2026
Commentary and opinions In his latest column, Gustavo Arellano breaks down the banality of evil in the Border Patrol’s secret anti-immigrant slur.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026

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The research team enabled a room-temperature, four-electron chemical reaction path that forms and decomposes lithium oxide, which expands available energy storage.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 June 2026
Organic material trapped in reservoirs accumulates and decomposes over time, releasing methane — a potent greenhouse gas that significantly contributes to global warming, Fernández-Garrido told CNN.

— Radina Gigova, CNN Money, 27 May 2026

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Even those who can afford to stay suffer losses in home equity and lifestyle as the community around them disintegrates or disappears.

— The Conversation, Fortune, 12 June 2026
None are quite about the conflicting frames of reference and value that arise when an ancient cultural formation disintegrates and a successor has yet to take its place.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

Definition of disintegrates

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The signal degrades at every step along this journey, and the guessers have to do their best with some pretty warped data.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 28 July 2026
This outcome-fixation registers in the brain as a threat, triggering a subtle fight-or-flight state that degrades executive presence.

— Luciana Paulise, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Definition of degrades

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The movie follows Lee Byung-hun (Squid Game) as Yoo Man-su, a man who is fired from his job at a paper manufacturing company after an American company buys out his company and downsizes.

— Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
His loving, pragmatic wife, Mi-ri (Son Ye-jin), gamely downsizes their middle-class life to fit their new reality — but her resoluteness only exacerbates his despair.

— Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025

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