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Dilapidate   Listen
verb
Dilapidate  v. i.  To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate.





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"Dilapidate" Quotes from Famous Books



... bishop had offended; but it was gradually restored to the state, of which the traces may be now discerned, and was at last not destroyed by the tumultuous violence of Knox, but more shamefully suffered to dilapidate by deliberate robbery and frigid indifference. There is still extant, in the books of the council, an order, of which I cannot remember the date, but which was doubtless issued after the Reformation, directing that the lead, which covers ...
— A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland • Samuel Johnson


Words linked to "Dilapidate" :   gnaw, break, erode, corrode, fall apart, change, destruct, droop, eat at, ruin, bust, wear, rust, wilt, gnaw at, deteriorate, decay, destroy, wear out, crumble, dilapidation, wear away, weather


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