dilapidate
Example Sentences
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The Victorian houses that line the avenues have been allowed to dilapidate.
From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2015
Hassenfratz dilapidates at home; Dumouriez grumbles and they dilapidate abroad: within the walls there is sinning, and without the walls there is sinning.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Smilash had immediately promised to dilapidate it to its former state at the end of the year.
From An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, Bernard
Buffets and gyves from your effete Old monarchy dilapidate, Or freedom's laurels for thy brow?
From Poems Vol. IV by Howard, Hattie
Near this abode, but just beyond the gate, A simple cottage stood, old and dilapidate, The home of a poor weaver.
From Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. by Curzon, Sarah Anne
