All 3 Uses of
dilapidated
in
David Copperfield
- She was a little dilapidated — like a house — with having been so long to let; yet had, as I have said, an appearance of good looks.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- There was, and is when I write, at the end of that low-lying street, a dilapidated little wooden building, probably an obsolete old ferry-house.†
Chpt 46-48
- It is nothing smaller than the Crocodile Book, which is in rather a dilapidated condition by this time, with divers of the leaves torn and stitched across, but which Peggotty exhibits to the children as a precious relic.†
Chpt 63-64
Definition:
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(dilapidated) in bad condition -- especially from age and neglect