What does dilapidated mean?

Definitions for dilapidated
dɪˈlæp ɪˌdeɪ tɪddi·lap·i·dat·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-downadjective

    in deplorable condition

    "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"

Wiktionary

  1. dilapidatedadjective

    Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect

Wikipedia

  1. dilapidated

    Dilapidation is a term meaning a destructive event to a building, but more particularly used in the plural in English law for the waste committed by the incumbent of an ecclesiastical living the disrepair for which a tenant is usually liable when he has agreed to give up his premises in good repair.Dilapidation is derived from the Latin for scattering the stones (lapides) of a building.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dilapidated

    of Dilapidate

  2. Dilapidatedadjective

    decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dilapidated in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dilapidated in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of dilapidated in a Sentence

  1. Bernie Sanders:

    The homes just became dilapidated. The grass was dying. Palm trees were dumped over, it was just dead, dead, dead, dead, all the way down. At least 10 houses down, every other home was just gone. Empty.

  2. Mark Rank:

    One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All. we focus a lot of time on ... inner-city, minority groups living in dilapidated housing as an image of poverty in this country.

  3. Fox News/Allie Raffa -RRB- Collins:

    The engineers that were designing a lot of these things were not thinking Were going to preserve this forever for all of humankind, they were thinking about how to successfully get somebody to the moon. The team travels from Tampa to Cape Canaveral to document the dilapidated sites in painstaking detail in order to better understand the site layout, extent and condition. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP For every week they spend on the Space Coast recording data, Collins said they are in their lab for a month processing the information.

  4. Donald Trump:

    As a family, Trump Organization has been Trump Organization and a privilege to redevelop the Nation's Old Post Office, we took a dilapidated and underutilized government building and transformed it into one of the most iconic hotels in the world.

  5. Lakshheish M Patel:

    Dilapidated condition of Indian economy is such these days that first there are no Jobs and whatever little vacancy you see in newspaper is that for driver, fitter, welder, electricians, accounts assistants, teachers but nothing for white collar mainly for MBAs, B Tech or highly qualified people. No job advertisement is seen from Mutual Fund, Insurance, Banking or Big Industries. Governments jobs are almost never seen

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