dilapidated
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Synonyms
beat-up, bombed-out, dog-eared, down-at-the-heels (or down-at-heel), dumpy, grungy, mangy, mean, miserable, moth-eaten, neglected, ratty, run-down, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, sleazy, tacky, tatterdemalion, tatty, threadbare, timeworn, tumbledown
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The district is currently working on buyouts at the dilapidated Riverview Townhomes. — Kaila Contreras, Houston Chronicle, "Lake Houston reaches for full recovery 2 years after Hurricane Harvey," 1 Sep. 2019 After her grandmother dies, Billie James, a grant writer, returns to the Mississippi Delta for the first time in 30 years to claim her inheritance ā $5,000 and a half-dilapidated house that was once her fatherās. — Michele Langevine Leiby, chicagotribune.com, "In āThe Gone Dead,ā a womanās questions about her fatherās death reveal a townās racist history," 17 July 2019 The house, though dilapidated, is a living relic of Simoneās formative years in Tyron. — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, "Nina Simoneās Childhood Home Is Under Threat. This Campaign Aims to Save it," 15 July 2019 What Kiki finds is a dilapidated, abandoned lab full of both normal creatures like frogs and squids, but also strange ones like flamethrower robots and carnivorous plants that all seem determined to stop her. — Michael Moore, The Verge, "Gato Roboto is a streamlined Metroid starring a cat in a mech," 30 June 2019 Emma Hernandez was riding her bicycle near her home in Southwest Detroit on Monday when the three pit bulls escaped through dilapidated fences and attacked her, according to police. — Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, "Dad of 9-year-old Detroit girl mauled to death by pit bulls had argued with owner, family says," 21 Aug. 2019 The non-federal portion of this project, which was supposed to completed by the Park District and the Department of Transportation, remains unfinished as evidenced by the dilapidated stretch of shoreline between 47th Street and Hyde Park Boulevard. — Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, "Chicago to use drones to study Lake Michigan erosion as fall storms loom," 20 Aug. 2019 Beyond providing jobs, the cannabis businesses that are opening in the area are also spending significant sums of money to fix up dilapidated parts of both cities. — Sonia Waraich, The Mercury News, "Cannabis manufacturing is booming in Humboldt County," 15 Aug. 2019 Five years after voters approved an $800 million bond referendum to repair dilapidated schools, only seven of the 234 schools are complete, with 55 under construction. — Scott Travis, sun-sentinel.com, "Broward school repair program soars to $436 million over budget," 14 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'dilapidated.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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