Definition of Dilapidating

1. Verb. (present participle of dilapidate) ¹

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Definition of Dilapidating

1. dilapidate [v] - See also: dilapidate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dilapidating

dilacerates
dilacerating
dilaceration
dilacerations
dilactone
dilactones
dilambdodont
dilambdodonts
dilaniation
dilantin gingivitis
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dilapidated
dilapidatedly
dilapidatedness
dilapidates
dilapidating (current term)
dilapidation
dilapidations
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dilatabilities
dilatability
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dilatancies
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dilatated
dilatates

Literary usage of Dilapidating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1818)
"... his life being passed in constructing and dilapidating. A Genoese renegade was employed as his architect, who had exhibited in the Author's estimation ..."

2. The Irish Jurist (1855)
"Barnes, a constable in the Dublin Metropolitan Police, for the apprehension of all persons who might be found dilapidating the said premises. ..."

3. The Reformers' Gazette by Muir, Gowans & Co. (Printer) (1831)
"Have there been no Jobs—no " misapplying and dilapidating of the Town's patrimonio," as Provost Anderson called it, since the year 1691 ? ..."

4. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1904)
"But for the single defect of the dilapidating banks of the Missouri, the country bordering on it, thus far, would not be surpassed by any in the world. ..."

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