Dilapidate

Definition: Dilapidate

Dilapidate

Verb

1. Bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Deterioration

Injure, impair, labefy, damage, harm, hurt, shend, scath, scathe, spoil, mar, despoil, dilapidate, waste; overrun; ravage; pillage.

Crosswords: Dilapidate

Albanian

thyhem (break, break off, comb, crash, deflect, go to pieces, snap), shkatërrohem (be scattered, crumble, decay, deteriorate, totter), prish lekët, pësoj rënie (come down), marr tatëpjetë (decay). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تصبح قديمة, ‏تخرب, ‏خرب (blight, desolate, destroy, devastate, dilapidated, fallen, go to pot, gum, harm, harry, havoc, overthrow, play havoc with, pull down, ravage, ruin, ruined, ruinous, sabotage, spoil, waste, wreck). (various references)

Bulgarian 

руша (break down, wear away, weather), разнебитвам (total, unstring), прахосвам (dissipate, lavish, revel away, skittle, squander, throw around, trifle away, waste). (various references)

Chinese 

毁坏 (Destroy, Destroyed, Destroying, Destruction, Dilapidated, Dilapidating, Gutted, Gutting). (various references)

Czech

chátrat (break up, go to the bad, run to seed). (various references)

Farsi 

خراب کردن (Amortize, Botch, Corrupt, Demolish, Destroy, Deteriorate, Devastate, Disfigure, Impair, Muck, Muddle, Ruin, Ruinate, Unbuild, Undo, Unmake, Vitiate, Wrack, Wreck), بحال ویرانی دراوردن . (various references)

French

délabrer. (various references)

German

ruinieren (blast, break, destroy, Mar, mess up, ruin, scuttle, spoil, to ruin, undo, wreck). (various references)

Greek 

κατεπειρώ. (various references)

Hungarian

megrongál (damage, injure, mutilate, spoil, to blemish, to damage, to impair, to injure, to mar, to mutilate, to scathe, to waste). (various references)

Indonesian

merusak (blight, botch, corrode, deflower, deprave, detrimental, impair, wreck). (various references)

Italian

dilapidare (squander, waste), rovinare (be ruined, blast, blight, break, collapse, crash, damn, demolish, destroy, devastate, disfigure, do in, kill, nip, pull down, put pay, ruin, scuttle, shatter, spoil, undo, waste, wreck). (various references)

Korean 

황폐케 하십시�". (various references)

Manx

cur drogh-chummey er. (various references)

Pig Latin

ilapidateday.(various references)

Portuguese

dilapidar, destruir (blast, butcher, consume, defeat, demolish, depredate, destroy, devour, douse, eat, end, explode, extinguish, finish off, havoc, impair, kill, mine, obliterate, override, overwhelm, poison, puncture, quash, quench, rase, ravage, raze, reave, reive, ruin, sabotage, shatter, slay, subvert, tear down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wrack, wreck), demolir (break down, demolish, destroy, level, pull down, pulverize, quash, rase, raze, unbuild, wrack, wreck), estragar (blunder, botch, bungle, deface, deteriorate, disconcert, foul up, impair, injure, mar, mess, muck, muddle, overset, poison, queer, rub, screw up, spoil), arruinar (blight, break, crack, decay, demolish, depredate, destroy, devastate, fling, injure, mar, mine, puncture, ravage, reave, reive, ruin, spoil, undo, unmake, waste). (various references)

Romanian

distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck), degrada (abase, bastardize, break, come down, debase, degrade, depreciate, gradate, grade, pervert, reduce to the ranks, waste), decãdea (decay, decline, deteriorate, fall, fall into decay, go down, go to seed, lapse, putrefy, rot, ruin, run to seed), dãrãpãna (deteriorate), se ruina (break, crash, decay, fall, flatten, go under, ruin), ruina (bankrupt, blast, blight, crock, destroy, impair, Mar, overturn, ravage, ruin, sink, undo), şubrezi (waste, weaken). (various references)

Russian 

растратить (misappropriate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dotrajati (last, run out), rušiti (demolish, desolate, raze, tear down), rasturati (distribute, push), raspadati se. (various references)

Spanish

arruinar (bane, bankrupt, beggar, blast, blight, break, leak, mess up, murder, ruin, scuttle, tear, throw over, wash out, wreck). (various references)

Swedish

slösa med (lavish, lay out, play ducks and drakes with), falla ihop (cave in, collapse, crumple, fall down, fall in), förstöra (bugger, butcher, crab, demolish, destroy, devastate, muff, perish, quash, rape, ruin, shatter, sink, spoil, undo, waste, wreck), förfalla (decay, decline, degenerate, degrade, drop through, expire, go to ruin, go to the dogs, lapse, mature). (various references)

Thai

ปล่อยให้ชำรุ�". (various references)

Turkish

kırıp dökmek (vandalize), harap olmak (be devastated, go to ruin, go to wrack, shipwreck), harap etmek (destroy, devastate, make havoc of, play havoc with, ravage, ruin, shatter, tear up, waste, work havoc), bakımsız bırakmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

руйнувати (attack, baffle, blight, cast down, confound, demolish, destroy, devour, disappoint, explode, havoc, ruin, shake down, wrack, wreck), призводити до занепаду. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dilapidate": dilapidated, dilapidates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dilapidate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dilapitate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lapidated.

-2 letters: lapidate.

-3 letters: adapted, alidade, dilated, plaided, plaited, taliped, tilapia.

-4 letters: alated, alidad, aliped, aplite, daedal, detail, dialed, dilate, elapid, laddie, lipide, paddle, palate, piddle, pitied, plated, pleiad, tailed, tidied.

-5 letters: aalii, adapt, addle, adept, aided, ailed, alate, dated, dealt, dedal, delta, didie, ideal, idled, iliad, laded, lated, leapt, lepta, lipid, litai, padle, palea.

+1 letter: dilapidated, dilapidates.