dilapidate

The Victorian houses that line the avenues have been allowed to dilapidate.

Dilapidate, di-lap′i-dāt, v.t. to pull stone from stone: to lay waste: to suffer to go to ruin.—adj.

Nuremberg was the first of the free cities of the Empire to pronounce herself Protestant, though the change was effected with so much order and moderation that no iconoclastic fury was allowed to dilapidate its churches and convents.

They were not such as I could combat; and I am driven to dilapidate the funds of my own country by a theft.

They were too prone to dilapidate and destroy their dwellings; they were therefore required to pay for the locks, cupboards, and doors.