ablation, breakdown, crippling, degradation, disorganization, hobbling, infringement, mildew, ravages of time, scathe, wear and tear
Definitionn. a state of deterioration due to old age or long use
Last update: June 26, 2015
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The ASI is renovating the forts that are in a state of dilapidation. [Please select]
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Hitherto, by his own showing, the private life of the young tsar had been unspeakably abominable, but his sensitive conscience (he was naturally religious) induced him, in 1550, to summon a Zemsky Sobor or national assembly, the first of its kind, to which he made a curious public confession of the sins of his youth, and at the same time promised that the realm of Russia (for whose dilapidation he blamed the boyar regents) should henceforth be governed justly and mercifully. [Please select]
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Many of the cottages had an air of dilapidation. [Please select]
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The sooner the process of dilapidation was arrested, the better and with the less difficulty. [Please select]
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There was a dilapidation about him, a look of blurred edges. [Please select]
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The dilapidation of the Wright place was especially obvious here at the entrance. [Please select]
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Parthenon at Athens, ii, 170; its Dilapidation, by the Venetians, Turks, and Lord Elgin, ii, 171. [Please select]
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The little gray cabin, with smoke curling from the stone chimney, had lost its look of dilapidation and disuse, yet there was nothing new that Columbine could see. [Please select]
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