dilapidated• Some of the old homes in Newville are well kept, but others are dilapidated.• When she turned left around the corner of the house, a dilapidated building came into view.• Maidstone rented a tinyapartment at the top of a very dilapidated building in the Vomero.• It was housed in old and dilapidatedbuildings between Holborn and the Strand.• A search of the outside storerevealed two foldingcanvasgardenchairs, dilapidated but useable.• The infirmary and stables had become dilapidated during the wars, having been occupied by enemycavalry, and were empty.• We stayed in an old, dilapidatedhotel with a leakyroof.• Jesse was raised in a large, dilapidated house on the East Side.• a dilapidated house• Labour has pledged to cancel the City TechnologyCollegeprogramme to release £100 million immediately for repair and decoration of dilapidated schools.• Unless your home is totally dilapidated, steer clear of a complete redecoration prior to selling: it will arousesuspicion.• The villages on the road for Tabor looked less dilapidated than Prague.
Origindilapidated
(1500-1600)Latindilapidare“to scatter like stones, misuse, destroy”, from lapidare“to throw stones”