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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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7 words match “DILAPIDATED”

DILAPIDATED a.
Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect. A deserted and dilapidated buildings. Cooper.
DILAPIDATE v.
o impair by waste and abuse; to squander. The patrimony of the bishopric of Oxon was much dilapidated. Wood.
DILAPIDATION n.
The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered. Tell the people that are relived by the dilapidation of their public estate. Burke.
ROOKERY n.
A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.
RUIN n. 2 definitions
or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like. The Veian and the Gabian towers shall fall, And one promiscuous ruin cover all; Nor, after length of years, a stone betray The place where once the very ruins lay. Addis…
RUINOUS a.
Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
TUMBLE-DOWN a.
Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house. [Colloq.]