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Meanings of dilapidated in inglês

In deplorable condition.

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      Examples for "derelict"
      1
      Turning back, Rardove sailed a brief look over the young, derelict soldiers.
      The irish warrior
      2
      The building seemed even more derelict than it had twenty minutes ago.
      Twisted
      3
      Property porn was a great escape: derelict castles, run-down farms, lighthouse conversions.
      The Irish Times
      4
      Some promoters didn't share our concern, and staged events in derelict warehouses.
      Class of 88
      5
      The city, the island, now carried the haunted feel of a derelict.
      Night of Knives
      1
      The shed was a ramshackle wooden affair that had seen better days.
      Faerie Wars
      2
      A shiny, new double-wide mobile home was parked near the ramshackle barn.
      Colorado abduction
      3
      The ramshackle one- and two-story buildings gave way to desert and highway.
      Sympathy for the devil
      4
      What about that ramshackle manor house in Lancashire you love so well?
      The devil wears plaid
      5
      Alec scrambles from the plane and runs to the ramshackle jockeys' room.
      News.com.au
      1
      Lionheart then made a quick inspection of the other 'cat's bedraggled fur.
      Fire Season
      2
      Even the animals, in their woven willow enclosures, appeared bedraggled and morose.
      Hood
      3
      He was about the most bedraggled and beat-up thing she'd ever seen.
      Stinger
      4
      At seven I rolled myself out of bed, feeling cranky and bedraggled.
      Two for the dough
      5
      Nan saw his wet face, with the bedraggled hair clinging about it.
      Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp; Or, The Old Lumberman's Secret
      1
      But its tatterdemalion presence relieved her, and her face jerked up scarlet.
      A Daughter of the Snows
      2
      There, at the corner near the learned Club-house, halts the tatterdemalion.
      What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06
      3
      This tatterdemalion crew of mine is all there is left of my cohorts.
      The Precipice: A Novel
      4
      A bloodied tatterdemalion of a figure was leaning out of the train's cab.
      Johannes cabal the necromancer
      5
      Coronado's first bullet knocked a villainous-looking tatterdemalion clean into the happy hunting grounds.
      Overland: A Novel
      1
      There are hints of an older past: broken-down churches; dense, uncultivated forests.
      The Guardian
      2
      Look for the broken-down open gate to the right of the allotments.
      The Guardian
      3
      He was evidently broken-down by terror, and engrossed in his own safety.
      Kilgorman: A Story of Ireland in 1798
      4
      It is now well-known that most superstition is in fact broken-down ritual.
      The Meaning of Witchcraft
      5
      On the contrary, he helped the broken-down man to leave the country.
      A Master of Mysteries
      1
      At the base of the knolls he encountered a tumble-down stake-and-rider fence.
      Burning Daylight
      2
      And they live in that little tumble-down house in Mullen Lane, and-
      Janice Day, the Young Homemaker
      3
      General Grant's headquarters were in the second story of a tumble-down building.
      The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1
      4
      We choose two of the tumble-down vehicles and go after the ladies.
      Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
      5
      This tumble-down, six-roomed cottage was to be the saving of the family.
      They and I
      Usage of dilapidated in inglês
      1
      A year ago Chesterfield was a slightly dilapidated but entirely adequate station.
      The Guardian
      2
      Immediately past the gates, however, stood a series of dilapidated mechanics' workshops.
      Map of bones
      3
      Experts and engineers had said dilapidated machinery was responsible for the accident.
      Reuters
      4
      Iraq's infrastructure is dilapidated after decades of war, sanctions and economic decline.
      Reuters
      5
      The cowyards in many districts were formerly in a very dilapidated condition.
      Hodge and His Masters
      6
      A small, dilapidated structure, attached to the main part, caught her attention.
      The spurned viscountess
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      Tens of thousands of people are packed together in these dilapidated buildings.
      The new yorker
      8
      Inside the dilapidated shell, the boathouse was chiefly water and open space.
      Shadowland
      9
      The cottages of the poor tenants were in a sadly dilapidated state.
      In the Eastern Seas
      10
      Are some of the natural resources of this dilapidated and poverty-stricken country.
      The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign / Why It Exists, and How I...
      11
      One drawback of the situation was the dilapidated state of the house.
      Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
      12
      They approach what at first looks like a dilapidated group of buildings.
      Angelfall
      13
      In a small dilapidated dwelling on the bleak sands, the dead lay.
      Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
      14
      Everything in and around it was dirty and more or less dilapidated.
      The Settler and the Savage
      15
      But many are dilapidated, and renovation often requires transforming them beyond recognition.
      Wired
      16
      Ben did and saw a dilapidated version of himself, but himself nevertheless.
      The Black Unicorn
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