delapidated in English
adjective
1
(of a building or object) in a state of disrepair or ruin as a result of age or neglect.
If it goes ahead, it will allow the council to dispose of several dilapidated office buildings around the city.
verb
1
cause (something) to fall into disrepair or ruin.
Deprived of others, free solitude, like the astronauts' weightless state, dilapidates muscles, bones, and blood.
adjective
- run-down tumbledown ramshackle broken-down in disrepair shabby battered beat-up rickety shaky unsound crumbling in ruins ruined decayed decaying decrepit neglected uncared-for untended the worse for wearfalling to piecesfalling apartgone to rack and ruingone to seed
- tumble-down bedraggled broken-down derelict tatterdemalion ramshackle
verb
Use "delapidated" in a sentence
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1. Stuffy room that was hard to keep cool, in aging, delapidated hotel.