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A state of deterioration due to old age or long use
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dilapidation
Word definitions for dilapidation in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Late Latin dilapidationem (nominative dilapidatio ) "a squandering," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin dilapidare "throw away, squander, waste," literally "pelt with stones" (thus "ruin, destroy") or else "scatter like stones," ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dilapidation \Di*lap`i*da"tion\, n. [L. dilapidatio: cf. F. dilapidation.] 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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a state of deterioration due to old age or long use [syn: decrepitude ] the process of becoming dilapidated [syn: ruin ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined. 2 (context legal English) The act of dilapidating, damaging a building or structure through neglect or by intention. 3 (context British legal English) Ecclesiastical waste: impairing ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Usage examples of dilapidation.
Felix Dahn seems to have fought with the help of Totila and Teja, Belisarius and Narses, had arrived at their present state of dilapidation beneath the hands of the seafaring brother.
Now smoke rose from those courtyards, and ancient mechanical vehicles, in many stages of dilapidation, were parked helter-skelter against the outer walls.
She heard Gestapo in every puff of air that slipped in, among any of a thousand windways of dilapidation.
Its yellow plaster walls were cracked and overrun by pink bougainvillaeas and straggling guavas, the tin roof sported several visible holes, and the whole place gave off an air of mournful dilapidation.
It seemed equally certain that Erich Keyser's History of the City of Danzig and A Struggle for Rome, which a man by the name of Felix Dahn seems to have fought with the help of Totila and Teja, Belisarius and Narses, had arrived at their present state of dilapidation beneath the hands of the seafaring brother.
Not the half of the dilapidations are yet put right, and in these troublous times, who knows when we may again be under attack?
But we cannot be held responsible for the town’s dilapidations, as we can for those here on our own lands.
If he had not given the goodmen of the town much help in making good the dilapidations due to the siege, neither had he permitted them to be misused or heavily taxed to restore the damage to the castle.
But we cannot be held responsible for the town's dilapidations, as we can for those here on our own lands.
He finds the language in which he has embarked his fame gradually altering and subject to the dilapidations of time and the caprice of fashion.
We marvelled more especially that flesh so delicate, the product and the producer of harmony, could endure such shocks and such dilapidations without instant disintegration.
Some of these dilapidations are said to be found in islands now uninhabited.
It had been tossed around at random since Christmas Day, and might have come by its dilapidations at any time since it was plucked out of the frosty reeds, where the drift of the tail-race had carried it, while the heavier body from which it had been flung was gradually edged aside under the leaning bank.