MEANING
A state or process of falling into disrepair.
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- advanced dilapidation
- structural dilapidation
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The mansion showed advanced dilapidation.
Years of dilapidation had weakened the stairs.
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Primary category: gothic. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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