dilapidates

verb

present tense third-person singular of dilapidate
as in putrefies

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  1. breaks down
  2. decomposes
  3. corrupts
  4. disintegrates
  5. degrades
  6. diminishes
  7. downsizes
  8. wanes
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  • Commentary and opinion Columnist Anita Chabria breaks down what’s at stake — legally and politically — in the Paramount merger.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Below, Brown breaks down the modern do’s and outdated don’ts of interior design using Amazon picks as low as $7.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of breaks down
Verb
  • Named for the Frenchman Joseph Fourier, the Fourier transform decomposes any function into a set of simple waves, each with a different frequency, or tone.
    — Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of decomposes
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  • Forgetting his bond with the land, Mariano awakens the Ch’iqmi, a dark force that corrupts his people.
    — Kevin Giraud, Variety, 25 June 2026
  • One nanny will try to get to the bottom of it before all the partying, power and privilege corrupts her.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2026
Definition of corrupts
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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
Verb
  • These are exactly the kinds of workflows where human attention degrades over time and for which automation and AI are ideally suited.
    — Tal Lev-Ami, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • But because niobium diselenide degrades rapidly in air, scientists have not been able to reliably fabricate devices at the wafer scale.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of degrades
Verb
  • Screening cover diminishes, and the birds will almost always be in lowland covers that offer both security and food.
    — Tom Huggler, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026
  • When your nervous system becomes overwhelmed, your ability to access your best thinking, empathy, creativity and judgment diminishes.
    — Sharon A. Kuhn, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of diminishes
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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
Definition of downsizes
Verb
  • The canning peach industry faces challenges as consumer demand wanes with the greater availability of fresh fruit.
    — Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • This raised questions about how well the vaccines prevent transmission and about how protection wanes over time.
    — Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of wanes
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