Dilapidate

[di'læpideit]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse.

布兰卡德錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building.

(v. t.) To impair by waste and abuse; to squander.

(v. i.) To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate.

伊万杰琳校對

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Waste, ruin, destroy, pull down, throw down, suffer to go to ruin.

埃利斯手打

解釋/意思:

v.t. to pull stone from stone: to lay waste: to suffer to go to ruin.—adj. Dilap′idated in ruins.—ns. Dilapidā′tion the state of ruin: impairing of church property during an incumbency: (pl.) money paid at the end of an incumbency by the incumbent or his heirs for the purpose of putting the parsonage &c. in good repair for the succeeding incumbent; Dilap′idator.

格里菲思校對