Dilapidated or neglected (of building)

Usage examples of derelict.

Heavy surf pounded the beaches, small craft took shelter behind the block-ships, all work stopped, ships anchored off shore dragged anchors and fouled one another, beaching craft were driven ashore, Mulberry A began to break up, and the crash of small craft, dukws, vehicles and derelict units grinding together was heard above the din of war.

Haynes remembered one incident, when he and Bucca were checking a crack house in a derelict building.

The lab shuttle raced off in pursuit, but the drogue derelict was out of control, tumbling and wheeling like a Chinese fireworks display.

He raised his right thumb toward where Tippoo Tip stood on the veranda of the derelict duka and as he returned the salute, the Hind rose vertically above the village and swung its nose toward the north.

The fact that a coastguard was the first on board may save some complications later on, in the Admiralty Court, for coastguards cannot claim the salvage which is the right of the first civilian entering on a derelict.

Ordinarily he was true to the derelict type -- ready to do anything for a nickel or a dose of whiskey or hasheesh -- but at rare intervals he shewed the traits which earned him his name.

In many cases, the loess had spilled over the tops, completely filling the passenger compartments and giving the craft the distinct impression of derelicts.

These wards were filled with derelicts: old women with dementia, impecunious veterans down on their luck, noseless men with tertiary syphilis and the like.

Satisfied that he could do it, he continued refining that skill, riping criminals, derelicts, and the mentally unstable into loyal drones, all eager to make that suicidal time jump and be entombed forever in the earth, all to build his little home.

Not the immense Americanised strip at Wodden, with its ever-increasing new runway extensions disappearing into the far distance, but Wodden as it must have been after the war: empty hangars and derelict huts with broken windows, and weeds spreading along the runway joints.

Carrie Tanner had decided that this yeaf she was going to try her hardest to coax Fred into buying the derelict property next door.

Winnebago and three mobile homes parked on a derelict farm about a mile outside of Tower, on the Blarney road.

These pieces dated to the fifteenth and sixteenth century, and must have come to the Sargasso on derelicts of that era.

Some of them, of course, had never seen anything but this great raft of derelicts which was the moldering heart of the Sargasso Sea.

Like a gigantic black serpent lifting its somber head to have a look over the Sargasso, it reared above the derelict.