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What does dilapidate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word dilapidate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To fall into ruin or disuse.
  2. To cause to become ruined or put into disrepair.
  3. (figuratively) To squander or waste.
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All the money has fled to the suburbs and left the city to dilapidate and disintegrate.
Smilash had immediately promised to dilapidate it to its former state at the end of the year.
We are proud of that, because under the previous government, that infrastructure was left to dilapidate.
The castle began to dilapidate after the year 1512 when the last member of the Bourscheid family had died.

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