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US
/dəˈɫæpəˌdeɪt/
]
VERB
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fall into decay or ruin
The unoccupied house started to decay - bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse
How To Use dilapidate In A Sentence
- The pig farm is a squalid 10-acre patch of mud and dilapidated buildings in the town of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.
- With Ahmed as our guide, we are taken to a gaunt, dilapidated building.
- The participants and production crew moved to Oxley Downs, six hours drive from Sydney to the property with 12 buildings, a dilapidated garden, horses, chickens, geese, a cow and 1.300 merino sheep.
- Developers buy old, unused, dilapidated hotels and redevelop them into brand new upscale luxury condos.
- The school was granted some temporary prefabs to replace old dilapidated ones which were declared unsafe, but with both sets of these prefabs in the school at the same time, the children lost a lot of their playground space.
- One of his first tasks after buying a dilapidated farmhouse in the Chiba prefecture, about 60 miles east of Tokyo, was to build a huge wooden bathtub.
- The bill requires owners to undertake remedial work on dilapidated buildings.
- German-French for “Madame la Vicomtesse,” and after many ceremonious bows, he drew from his pocket a dilapidated pocketbook, saying: “Che un betit bapier bour fous,” and unfolding as he handed it to her a piece of greasy paper. Une Vie
- His sons have dilapidated the estate.
- On the area of the croft land, there is also a further dilapidated farm building which could have the potential for residential conversion.