Dilapidation [noun]
Definition of Dilapidation:
ruin
Opposite/Antonyms of Dilapidation:
-
Sentence/Example of Dilapidation:
The ruins of Loglukabad are in an advanced state of dilapidation, and do not repay the trouble of a journey of seven miles.
The sun was streaming in through the little window, revealing the dust and the dilapidation of this lodging.
The museum contains much that, in its removal here or dilapidation, has lost nearly all its interest.
From the river itself the blackness, the squalor, the apparent dilapidation, of these Tyneside towns are not so conspicuous.
Day by day I watched, with a secret joy, the rapid progress of this work of dilapidation.
Once very sumptuous, the private office of the editor of “The Financial Pilot” had fallen into a state of sordid dilapidation.
Moreover, the defences here were mostly in a state of dilapidation, and the stores and ordinances in great disorder.
In the second place, the driver was drunk, and the horse was groggy, and the fiacre was in the last stage of dilapidation.
Cobwebs, dust, or incipient dilapidation do not excite the servant or mortify the proprietor.
He seems to have put Spain into Chancery, such is the general dilapidation.