What is "dilapidations"

Usage examples of "dilapidations".

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.