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dilapidation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | decrepitude |
| Type of | deterioration, impairment |
| Derivation | dilapidate |
Examples of dilapidation
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As long as we can manage to keep pace with the dilapidation process, we're okay.
From the time.com
Early works tended to reflect the dilapidation that was already afflicting the city.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Being a Southerner steeped in the beauties of dilapidation, I liked the armory a lot.
From the nytimes.com
Wester Elchies was pulled down in the early 1960s because of dilapidation.
From the en.wikipedia.org
There are 16 pyramids on the site, in varying degrees of dilapidation.
From the newsweek.com
The house fell into increasing dilapidation from the late 18th century.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Rising labour costs and minimal profits resulted in the gardens'increasing dilapidation.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Change will take some doing when stable neighborhoods are plagued by blight and dilapidation.
From the freep.com
Yet here, for the first time, I found the dilapidation charming.
From the independent.co.uk
- Decrepitude: a state of deterioration due to old age or long use
- The process of becoming dilapidated
- (dilapidate) bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse
- (dilapidate) decay: fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay"
- (dilapidated) bedraggled: in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
- Dilapidation is a term meaning in general a falling into decay, but more particularly used in the plural in English law for # the waste committed by the incumbent of an ecclesiastical livingn# the disrepair for which a tenant is usually liable when he has agreed to give up his premises in good ...
- >The state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined; >(law) The act of dilapidating, damaging a building or structure through neglect or by intention; >(UK, law) Ecclesiastical waste: impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention
- (dilapidate) To fall into ruin or disuse; To cause to become ruined or put into disrepair; To squander or waste
- (dilapidated) Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect
