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# dilapidated

«dilapidated» in Mova's school dictionary: **old, falling to pieces and in need of repair** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (dilapidated)

### meaning for a pupil

Dilapidated means old, falling to pieces and in need of repair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dilapidated/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a dilapidated dovecot or wall shows that a place has been left to decay; the word describes old, broken buildings

### examples

- The dilapidated barn had a broken roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dilapidated/#x1)
- We found a dilapidated dovecot in the old garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dilapidated/#x2)
- Ivy grew over the dilapidated walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dilapidated/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dilapidated» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dilapidated/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.