Usually means: Allow to fall into decay.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. dilapidate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dilapidate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dilapidate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dilapidate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dilapidate: Vocabulary.com
  6. dilapidate: Wordnik
  7. dilapidate: Wiktionary
  8. dilapidate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dilapidate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. dilapidate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Dilapidate, dilapidate: Dictionary.com
  12. Dilapidate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Dilapidate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. dilapidate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. dilapidate: Rhymezone
  16. Dilapidate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. dilapidate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. dilapidate: Free Dictionary
  19. dilapidate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. dilapidate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dilapidate: Legal dictionary

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  1. dilapidate: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dilapidate)

verb:  (transitive) To cause to become ruined or put into disrepair.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To squander or waste.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To fall into ruin or disuse.
adjective:  (archaic, obsolete) dilapidated

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