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Another word for dilapidated

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dilapidated

modif.

rundown, neglected, tumbledown, in disrepair; see crumbly, decaying, old 2.

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Another word for dilapidated

adjective

Falling to ruin:
ramshackle, ruinous, rundown, tumbledown. See better
Showing signs of wear and tear or neglect:
bedraggled, broken-down, decaying, decrepit, dingy, down-at-heel, faded, mangy, rundown, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, tattered, tatty, threadbare. (Informal) tacky². (Slang) ratty. Idioms: all the worse for wear, gone to pot (or seed), past cure (or hope). See better

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A fire was made up in the dilapidated brick stove.
On the east of the town at the foot of a hill stands a dilapidated fort.
He continued through the streets and slowed when he reached a dilapidated, boarded-up church on a corner.
They had been concealed in a cellar to prevent their falling into the hands of the book-collecting princes of Pergamum, and were in a very dilapidated condition.
Coast, is substantially built of stone, surrounded by a wall, and commanded by a dilapidated citadel; it is the residence of the sultan and of the French administrator.

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