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Definition of Dilapidating
1. dilapidate [v] - See also: dilapidate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dilapidating
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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