Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ecclesiastical law, the amount charged against an incumbent for damages incurred during his incumbency.
- noun In geology, the process by which exposed ledges become diminished or destroyed through the falling away of fragments of rock; also, the material broken off.
- noun Gradual ruin or decay; disorder; especially, impairment or ruin through misuse or neglect.
- noun Specifically In English ecclesiastical law, the pulling down, suffering to go to decay, or ruin of any building or other property in possession of an incumbent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered.
- noun Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention.
- noun (Law) The pulling down of a building, or suffering it to fall or be in a state of decay.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
dilapidated , reduced todecay , partially ruined. - noun law The act of
dilapidating , damaging a building or structure through neglect or by intention. - noun UK, law Ecclesiastical
waste : impairing of church property by an incumbent, throughneglect or by intention.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of becoming dilapidated
- noun a state of deterioration due to old age or long use
Etymologies
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Examples
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Cancer differs ... from heart disease and cirrhosis and the other lethal forms of physiological breakdown; uncontrolled cell reproduction, not organ dilapidation, is the problem.
CreatureCast video: multicellularity explained - Boing Boing 2009
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Cancer differs ... from heart disease and cirrhosis and the other lethal forms of physiological breakdown; uncontrolled cell reproduction, not organ dilapidation, is the problem.
CreatureCast video: multicellularity explained - Boing Boing 2009
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The dilapidation was a pleasing reminiscence of old times, and George was pleased enough to earn a quarter by patching it up.
Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson
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Age is here, but it does not suggest the idea of dilapidation or decay; rather of something which has been put under a glass case, and preserved with care from all extraneous influences.
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The Mission, aimed at pulling India's 63 cities out of their dilapidation, which is somewhat reminiscent of Dickensian London, is conditional upon a bunch of mandatory reforms.
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Besides which, they are always kept clean and in good order; you will never find those unsightly barns, and still less the dilapidation which is often met with in the mother land.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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No doubt the ancient city did not exhibit that air of mouldering dilapidation which is now so prominent there.
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The towns and villages in this region, though smaller and less prosperous than those of the free States, present an agreeable contrast to the squalid dilapidation which is everywhere visible upon the borders of the Atlantic.
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By law the program is supposed to help blighted areas that wouldn't attract sufficient economic development "without the benefits of tax increment financing" - that is, areas that won't improve unless the city ponies up to get rid of "dilapidation," vacant buildings, and environmental problems and bolster infrastructure.
Chicago Reader 2010
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'dilapidation' and a huge unintegrated pool of Muslim immigrants.
Peaktalk v2 2008
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