(v. t.) To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building.
(v. t.) To impair by waste and abuse; to squander.
(v. i.) To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Children still received an education, it was just that increasing numbers did so in damp and dilapidated buildings.
(2) In a dilapidated cafe in north Baghdad under a TV set blasting patriotic songs in support of Iraq's embattled prime minister, a young man looked grave.
(3) Picture Detroit today and the images that probably come to mind are of " ruin porn " (the now infamous term for beautifully shot photos of dilapidated buildings); urban exploring (the new craze of creeping around abandoned complexes as seen in Jim Jarmusch's new film Only Lovers Left Alive ) and foreclosure frenzy (there are now nearly 80,000 empty homes to be torn down or fixed up in Motor City).
(4) It was shot on location in Hollywood, with the real Jim Henson Studios standing in for the dilapidated Muppet Studios; Miss Piggy's costumes are all designer, as any star of her stature might expect, and include a pair of trotter-sized Louboutins.
(5) At least 74 people have been arrested, including Abarca and his wife, who were found Tuesday hiding in a dilapidated home in a rough section of Mexico City.
(6) For her, “Sambo” recalls the blubber-lipped, blue-black caricatures of African American children known as piccaninnies , perched on dilapidated porches, half-clothed and dusty, and as happy in squalor and ignorance as they can be.
(7) The place smells like wet cigarettes, and while the dilapidated building does have its charm, it feels as old as the games it houses.
(8) Even in its dilapidated state, it still received more than 140,000 visitors last year.
(9) Since the second world war, the area’s towering Georgian terraces, subdivided and dilapidated, had first been a semi-slum of immigrants and bad landlords, then a counterculture stronghold for squatters and hippies and punks.
(10) Perhaps this tragedy causes us to ask some tough questions about how we can permit so many of our children to languish in poverty, or attend dilapidated schools, or grow up without prospects for a job or for a career.
(11) As well as dilapidated equipment, the country's military and police suffered a serious problem of infiltration, with some officers helping the separatists.
(12) Until recently, most self-respecting rock bohemians would stay at the dilapidated but charming Chelsea, where they would rejoice in being shouted at by the manager for daring to ask to have the room where Sid Vicious killed Nancy Spungen.
(13) The horizon is fringed with the tall trees of the Ghanaian rainforest, but for Huang, this dilapidated shelter is his only shade from the sweltering tropical sun.
(14) The shells of dilapidated factories look out over an urban landscape that has been likened to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina – except Detroit's disaster was man-made and took decades to unfold.
(15) Thirty-two men and a boy now held at an immigration detention centre near Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, were rescued last Saturday when their dilapidated wooden vessel began sinking while making a perilous journey to Malaysia.
(16) Close up, the greenhouses lie derelict and trees rampage through their dilapidated timber frames.
(17) A couple of years ago a dilapidated little cinema called Shama was blown up in Peshawar.
(18) But we have already seen that Kane is dead and his Florida folly slowly turning into a dilapidated ruin.
(19) For example, the money could go towards improving the dilapidated Fairfield Halls theatre and concert venue.
(20) • Hrunalaug – a hot pot with a dilapidated changing hut in a grassy dell a few kilometres from Flúdir.
Lapidate
Definition:
(v. t.) To stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Joining Netanyahu is not Lapid's only option in the coming days and weeks, which will be dominated by labyrinthine coalition negotiations.
(2) But Lapid will want assurances that his agenda of socioeconomic reform and "sharing the burden" will be at the heart of the next government's policies.
(3) Referring to drawn-out proceedings against Netanyahu’s predecessor, Ehud Olmert, who was eventually jailed for corruption, Lapid said: “If two prime ministers in a row fall from office because of corruption, it will be very hard to rehabilitate the public’s trust in its leadership.
(4) Yair Lapid, head of the Yesh Atid party, denounced Netanyahu’s diplomatic campaign as a “colossal failure”.
(5) The country’s justice minister, Tzipi Livni, has spoken of the international isolation facing Israel if it fails to reach a peace deal, while the finance minister, Yair Lapid, has warned Israelis that economic sanctions could cause massive damage to the economy.
(6) The announcement was immediately condemned by the finance minister, Yair Lapid of the centrist Yesh Atid party, who warned that it would damage US-Israeli relations, which are already at a low ebb.
(7) "Lapid has two choices," wrote Shalom Yerushalmi in Ma'ariv.
(8) Netanyahu’s biggest rival, Yair Lapid, whose Yesh Atid party was ahead of Likud in the most recent polls, called for the latest inquiry to be concluded quickly for “the good of the country”.
(9) Lapid said “there is a crisis with the United States” and added that the relationship “must be managed respectfully and responsibly”.
(10) Returning to the attack in the aftermath of the deal, Yair Lapid, leader of the liberal centrist Yesh Atid party, compared the deal to the aftermath of the 1973 war – an event that shocked Israel’s confidence for a generation.
(11) Ben Hartman (@Benhartman) A theme of the first two eulogies for Gil-ad Shaer appears to be, in your death you brought the nation together #Israel #Jpost July 1, 2014 Ben Hartman (@Benhartman) Finance Minister Yair Lapid: today we are burying a young boy, parents arent supposed to bury their children, its a life that won't be lived July 1, 2014 1.12pm BST Reuters has a livestream of the funeral processions here .
(12) Similar calls were also made by defence minister Moshe Ya’alon, former finance minister Yair Lapid and foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman.
(13) The scale of the cuts have been dictated by the insistence of Netanyahu's finance minister, Yair Lapid, that he will not raise taxes to cover any shortfall.
(14) Lapid Sr served as minister of justice in the 2001-06 government of Ariel Sharon.
(15) Only the two patients with positive Lapides' tests still had bladder areflexia with residual urine greater than 100 ml.
(16) Yossi Verter, of the liberal daily Haaretz, wrote: "Yair Lapid's victory is the victory of modern politics , the politics of the internet and reality shows .
(17) This plan will lead to a serious crisis in Israel-US relations and will harm Israel’s standing in the world,” Lapid said.
(18) Tommy Lapid fought hard for secular interests in Israel, and was not afraid of strong criticism of the policies of his own government.
(19) Early rehabilitative treatment given after surgery for one year restored normal bladder functions in all the patients whose bladder denervation seemed to be not total (negative Lapides' test).
(20) The same issues have also bolstered support for two smaller right-leaning centrist parties – Yesh Atid, led by former finance minister Yair Lapid, who was catapulted on to the political stage after the 2011 protests,– and the new Kulanu party led by former Likud minister Moshe Kahlon, who some believe could be the king maker in negotiations to form a coalition after the elections.