Dilapidation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DILAPIDATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being dilapidated
• repairs required during or at the end of a tenancy or lease.
• a cause of action to force a tenant to pay for dilapidations.
• (in church use) a sum charged against an incumbent for wear and tear during a tenancy.
• the state or process of falling into decay or being in disrepair
• The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered.
• Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention.
• The pulling down of a building, or suffering it to fall or be in a state of decay.
• a state of deterioration due to old age or long use
• the process of becoming dilapidated
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin

Words related to DILAPIDATION

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Words that contain DILAPIDATION

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How to use DILAPIDATION in a sentence

• Where any portion of the framework has fallen into dilapidation and decay, the gaunt skeleton bones of the ruined structure are decked and covered with leaves and flowers.
• The old Hall of Threlkeld has long been in a state of ruinous dilapidation, the only habitable part of it having been for many years converted into a farmhouse.
• The Seraglio is now occupied entirely by the servants and guards, and the greater part of it shows a neglect amounting almost to dilapidation.
• The ruins of Loglukabad are in an advanced state of dilapidation, and do not repay the trouble of a journey of seven miles.
• Dirt and dilapidation disappear under a pearly haze, and a breeze from the sea blows away the memory of fetid markets and sordid heaps of humanity.
• It was in a state of extreme dilapidation, though a sort of wing appeared to have been recently tenanted.
• Indeed, all these appendages of slavery have gone into entire disuse, and Time is doing his work of dilapidation upon them.
• It is, of course, impossible for us to say for certain whether the ancient fabric could have been preserved, or whether its dilapidation had gone so far as to involve destruction.
• But he found it in a state of perilous dilapidation.
• And when the ships were painted, and had departed, it resumed very easily its more regular aspect of picturesque dilapidation.
• The jujur of a widow, which is generally eighty dollars, without appendages, is again reduced upon a third marriage, allowances being made for dilapidation.
• The museum contains much that, in its removal here or dilapidation, has lost nearly all its interest.
• The place was in a state of dilapidation, of approaching ruin.
• Something about it made her think of the general dilapidation of the Forgotten Village.
• They are in the last stages of dilapidation, and from without present the most ungainly spectacles to be witnessed in New York.
• Fifteen lives were lost, and the churches, convents, and many private houses are in a state of dilapidation.
• A fourth bombardment produced signal havoc and extensive dilapidation.
• The scene, as we have before said, betrayed everywhere dilapidation and decay.
• There was nothing left to him now but the old house, and that was in such a state of dilapidation as to be really unfit for habitation.
• She would have preferred to be left alone, in order that she might enjoy thoroughly the picturesque dilapidation she wished to describe.
• This was to take up their abode for the present in the untenanted ruins of Waverly-hall, and endeavour to prevent its further dilapidation.
• A feeble fire rested on the uneven bricks of the fireplace, and the chimney above was covered with newspapers in the last stages of dilapidation and dirt.
• Both the chair and his couch had burst out beneath, showing broken springs and general dilapidation.
• You may know it by its exceeding dilapidation and by the clouds of steam that issue on the street from one of its windows.
• Right before us, at the southern end, we saw the wreck of a ship in the last stages of dilapidation.
• A few fragments of ruins in the last stage of dilapidation cause us to think of the ages that have fled, as we speed rapidly on.
• Catherine, and which, though dismantled by Henry IVth, and reduced to a state of dilapidation, was still suffered to maintain its ruined existence till a few years ago.
• Yet all this was apart from any extraordinary dilapidation.
• He will recognise that one cannot deal with complicated properties of this sort without a certain amount of inevitable dilapidation and loss.
• To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.
• The fencing was of the best, and there were no signs of decay or dilapidation in any of the buildings.
• On this side the dilapidation and disorder of the premises had reached their height.

Similar words containing DILAPIDA without suffix tion

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