English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈlæpɪdeɪtəd/
Verb
dilapidated
- simple past and past participle of dilapidate
Adjective
dilapidated (comparative more dilapidated, superlative most dilapidated)
- Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect.
1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, pages 271–272:Their stately offices—their pleasant gardens—the magnificent cloisters constructed for their recreation, were all dilapidated and ruinous; […]
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 6:It was a strange scene, the contrasts which met in that large but dilapidated chamber. It had been the banqueting-hall in the ancient palace of the La Franchi, but the revelry and the splendour had long since passed away.
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Translations
having fallen into a state of disrepair
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: разнебитен (bg) (raznebiten)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 破舊的 / 破旧的 (zh) (pòjiù de), 破敗的 / 破败的 (zh) (pòbài de), 毀壞的 / 毁坏的 (zh) (huǐhuài de)
- Czech: zchátralý, zpustlý
- Danish: forfalden, forsømt, medtaget (da), faldefærdig (da)
- Dutch: verloederd (nl), verwaarloosd (nl), vervallen (nl)
- Esperanto: kaduka
- Faroese: forfallin
- Finnish: rapistunut, ränsistynyt
- French: caduc (fr), délabré (fr), infirme (fr), vieux (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: verfallen (de), baufällig (de), heruntergekommen (de)
- Greek: ρημαγμένος (el) (rimagménos), ερειπωμένος (el) (ereipoménos)
- Irish: ainriochtach
- Italian: pericolante (it), degradato (it), cadente (it) m
- Limburgish: keduuk (li)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forfallen, falleferdig
- Nynorsk: forfallen, falleferdig
- Persian: خرابه (fa) (xarâbe)
- Portuguese: dilapidado (pt)
- Romanian: dărăpănat (ro) m
- Russian: полуразру́шенный (ru) (polurazrúšennyj), полуразвали́вшийся (ru) (polurazvalívšijsja)
- Spanish: derruido (es), destartalado (es), dilapidado (es), ruinoso (es), desvencijado (es)
- Swedish: nedgången (sv), förfallen (sv), fallfärdig (sv)
- Ukrainian: напівзруйно́ваний (napivzrujnóvanyj)
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