delapidated in English

adjective

1

(of a building or object) in a state of disrepair or ruin as a result of age or neglect.

If it goes ahead, it will allow the council to dispose of several dilapidated office buildings around the city.

synonyms: run-down, tumbledown, ramshackle, broken-down, in disrepair, shabby, battered, beat-up, rickety, shaky, unsound, crumbling, in ruins, ruined, decayed, decaying, decrepit, neglected, uncared-for, untended, the worse for wear, falling to pieces, falling apart, gone to rack and ruin, gone to seed

verb

1

cause (something) to fall into disrepair or ruin.

Deprived of others, free solitude, like the astronauts' weightless state, dilapidates muscles, bones, and blood.

adjective

• run-down, tumbledown, ramshackle, broken-down, in disrepair, shabby, battered, beat-up, rickety, shaky, unsound, crumbling, in ruins, ruined, decayed, decaying, decrepit, neglected, uncared-for, untended, the worse for wear, falling to pieces, falling apart, gone to rack and ruin, gone to seed
• tumble-down, bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, tatterdemalion, ramshackle

verb

• decay, crumble

Use "delapidated" in a sentence

1. Stuffy room that was hard to keep cool, in aging, delapidated hotel.