[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dilapidate \dilap"idate\, 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.
      1913 webster

            if the bishop, parson, or vicar, etc., dilapidates
            the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the
            patrimony.                            --blackstone.
      1913 webster

   2. to impair by waste and abuse; to squander.
      1913 webster

            the patrimony of the bishopric of oxon was much
            dilapidated.                          --wood.
      1913 webster
see also:
dilapidated dilapidating lapidary 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dilapidated \dilap"ida`ted\, a.
   decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or
   neglect.
   1913 webster

         a deserted and dilapidated buildings.    --cooper.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

dilapidated
     adj : in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements";
           "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a
           tumble-down shack" syn: bedraggled, broken-down, ramshackle,
            tatterdemalion, tumble-down, unsound
see also:
bedraggled broken-down ramshackle tatterdemalion tumble-down unsound 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

111 moby thesaurus words for "dilapidated":
   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

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