dilapidate
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The Victorian houses that line the avenues have been allowed to dilapidate.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2015
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 Sarah Anne Curzon
They were not such as I could combat; and I am driven to dilapidate the funds of my own country by a theft.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buffets and gyves from your effete Old monarchy dilapidate, Or freedom's laurels for thy brow?
From Poems Vol. IV by Hattie Howard
They were too prone to dilapidate and destroy their dwellings; they were therefore required to pay for the locks, cupboards, and doors.
From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by John West
When he viewed it for the first time, the musician said it was just “raw land with two dilapidated cabins.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Somehow, they have found refuge in a dilapidated row house with a working television, where their viewing includes nature shows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The zoo, which houses more than 1,600 animals, has become dilapidated over the years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The building, filled to its ceilings, grew increasingly dilapidated; Langley’s paranoia about suspected intruders led him to build mazes of detritus to throw them off.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Tall, dilapidated houses looked down on them from every side.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
As science, however, truly considered, is the art of dilapidating and merging into confused ruin the theories of your predecessors, I was somewhat more precise with the destructive than the constructive part of my plan.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 by Various
Winnepeg, the much talked of Capital of the West, is simply dilapidating, and as far west as Regina living is high and wages low.
From Canada for Gentlemen by James Seaton Cockburn
The lamp, standing alone in the midst of confusion, suffered a partial eclipse; and my favourite Dublin meerschaum successfully resisted the dilapidating effect of a fall of several feet.
From Canada for Gentlemen by James Seaton Cockburn
In Ireland, deserted and betrayed, it has received a dilapidating shock.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
One book, and that the most read of all, was hedged by a sort of divinity which protected it, so far as that was practicable, from the dilapidating effects of use.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton
