dilapidate

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I can't say that's being dilapidate, I think it's just continuing the way it was before.

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  1. transitive and intransitive verb To bring or fall into a state of partial ruin, decay, or disrepair.
  2. transitive and intransitive verb Archaic To squander; waste.

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  • Bulawayo (ZimEye) - A looting scandal has been unearthed at the Zanu-PF controlled National Railways of Zimbabwe where bosses have acquired top-of-the-range vehicles valued at over US$1 million at a time when workers are going for months without salaries and the state of trains continue to dilapidate. —  SWRadioAfrica Podcast
  • With regard to the customers, I think in the past you had mentioned; that's when the banks have been getting a little tougher for the customer, forcing lower liquidations, are you seeing that pick up more now or is that sort of dilapidate at all? —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • I can't say that's being dilapidate, I think it's just continuing the way it was before. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • Will not these people expel us from the only shelter we have left--dilapidate what remains of royal property under my charge--make the palace of princes into a den of thieves, and then wipe their mouths and thank God, as if they had done an alms-deed Still," said his daughter, "there is hope behind, and I trust the King is ere this out of their reach--We have reason to think well of my brother Albert's safety Ay, Albert! —  Woodstock; or, the Cavalier
  • Knox, but more shamefully suffered to dilapidate by deliberate robbery and frigid indifference. —  Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
 

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  1. Latin dīlapidāre, dīlapidāt-, to demolish, destroy : dī-, dis-, apart; see dis- + lapidāre, to throw stones (from lapis, lapid-, stone).

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  1. Formerly also delapidate; from Late Latin dilapidatus, past participle of dilapidare (later Italian dilapidare = Spanish Portuguese dilapidar = French dilapider), throw away, squander, consume, destroy, literally scatter like stones, from Latin di-, dis-, apart, + lapidare, throw stones at, from lapis (lapid-), a stone: see lapidate.
 

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/daɪˈlæpɪdeɪt/
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