as in neglected
showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect
a dilapidated car that had seen better days
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Recent Examples of dilapidated
Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2025
They were forced to live in dilapidated buildings with mold, sewage, and rodent issues, and were confined to their rooms for weeks on end.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
For nearly a thousand days, a small group convened in the shadow of the dilapidated building, waiting for Donald Trump to get reëlected, and then pardon their family members.
—Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
The dilapidated lodge is gone, replaced by town homes.
—Keith Schneider, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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Adjective
The hotel is founded and managed by locals, who transformed a dilapidated bed-and-breakfast into a six-acre luxury hotel in 2001.
—Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2025
They were forced to live in dilapidated buildings with mold, sewage, and rodent issues, and were confined to their rooms for weeks on end.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
For nearly a thousand days, a small group convened in the shadow of the dilapidated building, waiting for Donald Trump to get reëlected, and then pardon their family members.
—Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
The dilapidated lodge is gone, replaced by town homes.
—Keith Schneider, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dilapidated
Adjective
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Some who have tolerated a static image on a neglected part of their screen may not be as accepting of more distracting ad formats.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
17 Mar. 2025
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This was to help end the puppy mill industry, where dogs are bred en masse, leading them to be born and raised in filthy and neglected conditions.—
Andrew Sheeler,
Sacramento Bee,
12 Feb. 2025
Verb
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When the tile degraded, the gaps were filled in with livestock bones.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 Dec. 2024
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That’s good news, considering phosphorous pollution has degraded water quality in the Everglades for decades and remains a challenge.—
Rebecca Blackwell,
Sun Sentinel,
19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The 33 towns being considered for this project, which are expected to meet final approval in the coming weeks, are all on the brink of extinction with the number of empty and abandoned houses outnumbering those that are inhabited.—
Barbie Latza Nadeau,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
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The team had a group task to accomplish, yes, but at every checkpoint, people had to make the decision to be selfish or selfless, and the selfish ones got rewarded while the selfless were left abandoned and miserable on the loch.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Fourteen years of war have left the country desolate, and its people exhausted; millions have been displaced or were forced to become refugees.—
Raghed Waked & Justin Salhani,
The Dial,
25 Mar. 2025
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That quality is maintained first and foremost by a desolate whistling-wind sound effect in the background of all the scenes, along with a sustained droning musical score.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Many parents, in fact, report that the worst-case scenario is not when your whole family is ill but when the adults are miserable and the under-six cohort feels just fine.—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2025
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Scratching will just make your rash worse and your life more miserable.—
Avery Hurt,
Discover Magazine,
29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The other traditional party, the Liberal Party, has splintered between those who remain loyal to Zelaya and those who led the coup, including Mauricio Villeda, the presidential candidate who leads a tattered vestige of his party.—
Dana Frank,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Nov. 2013
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What if standing up to Trump is the very thing that saves the Liberal Party, and Trudeau’s tattered legacy?—
Talib Visram,
TIME,
7 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The coins were apparently stored in a leather pouch, which had disintegrated over time, and concealed within or behind a kitchen wall, according to the Jerusalem Post.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Jan. 2025
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Roberto Mancini did make up with Carlos Tevez (or, at least, was willing to tolerate him) after their relationship at Manchester City appeared to have disintegrated.—
Daniel Taylor,
The Athletic,
29 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Even Britain’s right-wing newspapers were outraged by Trump’s shabby treatment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, while Reform’s existing voters are already outliers in their sharply anti-immigration views.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2025
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Right down the street the Four Seasons San Domenico is not too shabby either with divine view.—
Liza B. Zimmerman,
Forbes,
27 Dec. 2024
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“Dilapidated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dilapidated. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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