dilapidate
Example Sentences
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At the intersection where Herrera works, a dilapidated hotel waits for buyers.
From Barron's
A dilapidated watermill was up for sale after its previous owner, who saved it from demolition in the 1970s, had gone bankrupt.
From BBC
The result was a far cry from the dilapidated state the Carroll Gardens brownstone had been in when Harbour and Allen purchased it.
From MarketWatch
Reviving Venezuela’s dilapidated oil infrastructure will be a challenge, and some U.S. energy companies may not want to get involved.
Meanwhile, the dilapidated Venezuelan oil sector will need tens of billions of dollars of investment from those same companies, and would take years to revive in the best-case scenario.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
