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Falling to pieces from lack of care.

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Usage examples (32)
  • The dilapidated house at the end of the street is haunted.
  • Pack of wild dogs, rampant weeds call dilapidated Fairgrounds home
  • A second curiosity in the fort is a small unimportant temple, now much dilapidated, which is considered as very sacred by the Hindoos.
  • But the buildings were getting old, getting kind of dilapidated some of them, so they tore them all down.
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