dilapidation

dilapidated | American Dictionary

dilapidated
adjective
us/dəˈlæp·ɪˌdeɪ·t̬ɪd/
(esp. of a structure) in bad condition and needing repair:
We still use the dilapidated barn for storing tools.

Examples of dilapidated

dilapidated
The first remedy was one granted following a demonstration that a neighbour's property was so dilapidated as to threaten damage to one's own.
The slow rebuilding process meant that many refugees lived in dangerously dilapidated dwellings.
Soldiers live in dilapidated quarters and their hardware is obsolete.
The script's first description of the house is as dilapidated, shabbier than others on the street, with no carpets, no signs of occupation.
This change of focus allowed these spaces, in the countryside, in the forest and in dilapidated buildings, to alter.
She comes upon a dilapidated hut where she encounters an elderly, white-haired woman who offers her assistance.
Exploring their acoustic/ musical properties in their dilapidated state, brought them to life in surprising ways.
These are located in the middle- and lower-middle-class neighbourhood of small grocery stores, departmental stores, bookstores, and dilapidated apartment and office buildings.
The dilapidated one-horse town, cut off from modernity, also belongs to a fast-receding past.
An important point is that most of these firms were running below capacity and plants were in badly dilapidated condition.
Westerwalder traders concentrated in a neighbourhood consisting of small and dilapidated houses.
Much less space was now needed for locking up offenders and a number of dilapidated penal institutions were shut down.
His father came to a dilapidated farm in 1860.
A temple which is 'radiant', he says, has tremendous impact on people, whereas one which is dilapidated reflects a community which is disintegrating.
Ahmedabad proper, within the walls, is a bazaar, a huge market intermixed with the old dilapidated residential neighbourhoods of the pols.
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