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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ablative, battered, beat-up, beaten up, bedraggled, biodegradable, blowzy, broken-down, careless, chintzy, corrosive, crumbling, damaged, decayed, decaying, decomposable, decomposing, decrepit, degradable, derelict, destroyed, dingy, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive, disruptive, doddering, down-at-heel, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, dusty, erosive, faded, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fusty, gone to seed, groggy, grubby, impaired, in rags, in ruins, informal, injured, loose, lumpen, marred, messy, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moss-grown, moth-eaten, mussy, musty, negligent, poky, raddled, ragged, raggedy, ramshackle, ravaged, resolvent, ricketish, rickety, rocky, ruined, ruinous, run-down, rusty, scraggly, seedy, separative, shabby, shaky, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slummy, sluttish, solvent, sordid, spidery, spindly, squalid, stale, tacky, tattered, teetering, teetery, threadbare, time-scarred, timeworn, tottering, tottery, tumbledown, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, unsteady, untidy, wobbly, worn, wrecked
Dictionary Results for dilapidated:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
dilapidated
    adj 1: in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled
           tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old
           pier"; "a tumble-down shack" [syn: bedraggled, broken-
           down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle,
           tatterdemalion, tumble-down]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dilapidated \Di*lap"i*da`ted\, a.
   Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or
   neglect.
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         A deserted and dilapidated buildings.    --Cooper.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dilapidate \Di*lap"i*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dilapidated;
   p. pr. & vb. n. Dilapidating.] [L. dilapidare to scatter
   like stones; di- = dis- + lapidare to throw stones, fr. lapis
   a stone. See Lapidary.]
   1. To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by
      misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and
      good condition of; -- said of a building.
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            If the bishop, parson, or vicar, etc., dilapidates
            the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the
            patrimony.                            --Blackstone.
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   2. To impair by waste and abuse; to squander.
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            The patrimony of the bishopric of Oxon was much
            dilapidated.                          --Wood.
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