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a dilapidated old car
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The home is dilapidated from decades of neglect.
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The dilapidated buildings are gone, replaced by yellow fields and train tracks. (source)dilapidated = run down (in bad condition)
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Each season she grew more shrunken and dilapidated, surrendering her sturdy hull and deck to the ravages of woodworms, barnacles, and weather. (source)
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Mom and Dad moved into a six-story flophouse in a more dilapidated neighborhood.† (source)
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Farid led me to a dilapidated one-story house and knocked on the wood-plank door.† (source)
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I HAD REHEARSALS MOST NIGHTS at the Worm Creek Opera House, a dilapidated theater near the only stoplight in town.† (source)
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She'd seen Frau Diller leave (very satisfied) and Pfiffikus (white hair, a Nazi uniform, the same dilapidated shoes, and a triumphant whistle).† (source)
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In that movie, the nerds of the title rent a dilapidated house and fix it up (during a classic '80s music montage).† (source)
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The dogs ignored the barn and poked along the dilapidated barbedwire fence bordering the road, nosing the fireweed and morning glory twisting up the fence posts.† (source)
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Just a few miles from their destination, they were caught by heavy rain showers and forced to take refuge in a dilapidated barn.† (source)
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The buildings themselves were dilapidated—crumbling walls and faded paint—and even if you were one of the lucky 50 percent who made it out in four years, it was not at all clear that you'd be prepared for college or a job.† (source)
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Tall, dilapidated houses looked down on them from every side.† (source)
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He started off on his short legs toward the dilapidated old house.† (source)
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Probably even worse than the dilapidated outskirts of Los Angeles.† (source)
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Once, he rested in a clump of grass next to the dilapidated depot.† (source)
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