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• v  bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse
• v  fall into decay or ruin
• s  in deplorable condition

• In 1989, equipped with medicines scrounged from foreign relief workers and instruments she had sterilized in a rice cooker, she transformed a dilapidated barn in Mae Sot into a .
• Restless teenagers mill around narrow streets lined with burned-out houses and dilapidated trailer parks.
• He lived with his fifth wife in a dilapidated courtyard house, shuffling occasionally to the library to conduct historical research on his defanged and unloved dynasty.

• dilapidate
• decay
• crumble
• bedraggled
• broken-down
• derelict
• ramshackle
• tatterdemalion
• tumble-down

News & Articles

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• Netanyahu helps dedicate upgraded Holocaust exhibit at Auschwitz
  Inaccurate, dilapidated Communist-era display was remade by Israel’s Yad Vashem research center.
  June 14, 2013 - Washington Post
• Extrications concern Crowley Fire Chief Viator
  CROWLEY - During the Crowley city council meeting Tuesday night, the council moved to condemn four dilapidated properties, honored a recently deceased man who served the city for decades and donat...
  June 14, 2013 - Acadia Parish Today
• Oak Ridge board to building owner: Fix it up or tear it down
  OAK RIDGE — A high-profile but dilapidated building in a busy commercial area faces either a date with a wrecking ball or significant repairs following action Thursday by a city board.
  June 13, 2013 - Knoxville News Sentinel

Quotes

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• Charles Schumer in USA Today
  To think that men and women are serving their country in the most honorable and courageous way possible and all we give them is a dilapidated, rat-infested, run-down building to recover is a disgrace,Schumer wrote. "My fear is that Walter...
• Mary Cheh in FOXNews
  We are united in making this a major effort of the city to rid the city of these dilapidated slums,council member Mary Cheh said at the news conference. "It takes a special indifference and greed to leave homes in this kind of condition,...
• Ludacris in PR Newswire (press release)
  I look at our communities now and I see many empty lots, closed clinics, dilapidated schools and an overall breakdown of social services for the poor and elderly,says Ludacris. "Today is a day for change. I plan to knock on doors in...