Dilapidate \Di*lap"i*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dilapidated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Dilapidating.] [L. dilapidare to scatter
like stones; di- = dis- + lapidare to throw stones, fr. lapis
a stone. See Lapidary.]
1. To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by
misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and
good condition of; -- said of a building.
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If the bishop, parson, or vicar, etc., dilapidates
the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the
patrimony. --Blackstone.
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2. To impair by waste and abuse; to squander.
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The patrimony of the bishopric of Oxon was much
dilapidated. --Wood.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dilapidated \Di*lap"i*da`ted\, a.
Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or
neglect.
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A deserted and dilapidated buildings. --Cooper.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dilapidated
adj : in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements";
"a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a
tumble-down shack" [syn: bedraggled, broken-down, ramshackle,
tatterdemalion, tumble-down, unsound]
WordNet (r) 2.0
111 Moby Thesaurus words for "dilapidated":
ablative, battered, beat-up, beaten up, bedraggled, biodegradable,
blowzy, broken-down, careless, chintzy, corrosive, crumbling,
damaged, decayed, decaying, decomposable, decomposing, decrepit,
degradable, derelict, destroyed, dingy, disintegrable,
disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive,
disruptive, doddering, down-at-heel, drabbletailed, draggled,
draggletailed, dusty, erosive, faded, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy,
fusty, gone to seed, groggy, grubby, impaired, in rags, in ruins,
informal, injured, loose, lumpen, marred, messy, mildewed,
moldering, moldy, moss-grown, moth-eaten, mussy, musty, negligent,
poky, raddled, ragged, raggedy, ramshackle, ravaged, resolvent,
ricketish, rickety, rocky, ruined, ruinous, run-down, rusty,
scraggly, seedy, separative, shabby, shaky, shoddy, slack,
slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slummy, sluttish, solvent,
sordid, spidery, spindly, squalid, stale, tacky, tattered,
teetering, teetery, threadbare, time-scarred, timeworn, tottering,
tottery, tumbledown, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, unsteady, untidy,
wobbly, worn, wrecked
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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