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Dilapidate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To bring or fall into a state of partial ruin, decay, or disrepair.

v. Archaic To squander; waste.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To fall into ruin or disuse.

v. To cause to become ruined or put into disrepair.

v. To squander or waste.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building.

v. To impair by waste and abuse; to squander.

verb-intransitive. To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To bring into a ruinous condition; impair or reduce to a state of ruin; especially, to ruin by misuse or neglect.

To waste; squander

To give the appearance of dilapidation to.

To fall into partial or total ruin; fall by decay.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. fall into decay or ruin

v. bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse

Word Usage

"The blatant lies of their elites continue to dilapidate the little crumbs that are still left, of what was once the "Great American Dream," - and has now become the "Great American Nightmare.""

Verb Form

dilapidated dilapidating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

destroy destruct

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

squander