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Dilapidated

adjective

In deplorable condition. Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down. "A broken-down fence" , "A ramshackle old pier" , "A tumble-down shack"

Dilapidate

verb

(past & past part. dilapidated; pres. part. dilapidating)

Bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse.

Fall into decay or ruin. Synonyms: crumble, decay.

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"Dilapidated" Quotes from Famous Books

... charge; that he—Titianus—was cognizant of the bad condition in which it then was, and had come to take council with him and the architect as to what could be done in the course of a few days to make the dilapidated residence habitable for Hadrian, and to repair, at any rate, the more conspicuous damage. He then desired the steward to ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... think so, when I get you so often!' scornfully ejaculated Lancelot, drawing a dilapidated brioche from under the sofa, and squatting on it, with his dancing eyes ...

— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge

... window, before which hung a dilapidated shutter by a rusty hinge. The door opened, Billy knew, into a little passage from which the room door opened, and from which a rickety ladder led up to a loft, unused and ...

— Joyce of the North Woods • Harriet T. Comstock

... a horse and buggy standing at the curb, and say, you never in all your life saw such a dilapidated outfit. Talk to me about the famous 'one hoss shay,' it couldn't have been a circumstance beside that rig. Everywhere the shafts were tied up to hold, the harness patched till it looked all strings, and the animal, well, he was a walking skeleton. Any other ...

— Fred Fenton Marathon Runner - The Great Race at Riverport School • Allen Chapman

... of the Old Missions of California is perennially new. The interest in the ancient and dilapidated buildings and their history increases with each year. To-day a thousand visit them where ten saw them twenty years ago, and twenty years hence, hundreds of thousands will stand in their sacred precincts, and unconsciously absorb beautiful and unselfish lessons of life as they ...

— The Old Franciscan Missions Of California • George Wharton James

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