Reverse Dictionary: DILAPIDATE

ADJECTIVES
► ALL IN of machinery, etc.: run-down, dilapidated → 1967 Amer. dial.
► CREACHY broken-down, dilapidated → 1715 Eng. dial.
► DILABERDATED dilapidated → 1966 Amer. dial.
► DILAPILATED dilapidated → 1966 Amer. dial.
► DISJASKED broken down, dilapidated, worn out, exhausted → 1816 Sc.
► DONE UP dilapidated; not functioning → 1968 Amer. dial.
► GRUNGY ugly, run-down or dilapidated → 1965 sl.
► JELAPIDATED dilapidated → 1969 Amer. dial.
► LAVADATED rickety, dilapidated → 1927 Amer. dial.
► OLD-ASS run-down, dilapidated, old → 1969 US sl.
► RAGGED of places: dilapidated, broken-down → 1805
► RAGGETY run-down, second-rate, dilapidated → 1930s African-American sl.
► RAGGLY run-down, dilapidated → 1966 Amer. dial.
► RAGGLY-ASS run-down, dilapidated → 1968 Amer. dial.
► RAGIDY run-down, second-rate, dilapidated → 1930s African-American sl.
► RAMSHACKELDY ► RAMSHACKLETY dilapidated, in a state of disrepair, run-down → 1905 Amer. dial.
► RAMSHACKERING rickety, dilapidated → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► RAMSHACKLE loose and shaky as if ready to fall to pieces; rickety, tumbledown, dilapidated, in disorder; orig. said chiefly of carriages and houses → 1830
► RAMSHACKLED dilapidated, run-down, in a state of disrepair, rickety, tumbledown → 1675
► RAMSHACKLING rickety, tumbledown, dilapidated → 1868
► RAMSHACKLY rickety, tumbledown, dilapidated, run-down, in a state of disrepair → 1857
► RANSHACKLED rickety, dilapidated → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RATTLE-TRAP dilapidated, worn-out, ramshackle → 1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RAUNCHY dilapidated, old, worn out, used up; cheap, inferior; ugly, dirty; gaudy; corny → c1950 US teen usage
► RENTS COMING IN dilapidated; ragged → 1708-10 colloq.
► RICKETY-RACKETY shaky, dilapidated, unstable → 1968 Amer. dial.
► RICKLETY rickety, unstable, dilapidated, unsteady → 1969 Amer. dial.
► RICKLEY ► RICKLY loose, unstable, rickety, dilapidated → 1865 Sc.
► RICKY-RACKY shaky, dilapidated, unstable → 1968 Amer. dial.
► SHACKELTY ► SHACKLEDY ► SHACKLETY dilapidated, run-down, ramshackle, rickety, shaky → 1905 Amer. dial.
► TORN DOWN run down, dilapidated → 1916 Amer. dial.

NOUNS
► BUZZARD ROOST ► BUZZARD’S ROOST a disreputable gathering place or ramshackle building; a dilapidated building → 1889 Amer. sl.
► DECAYS dilapidations; ruined remains, ruins, debris, detritus; rarely in singular → 1582 obs.
► MUD-CART a dilapidated railway wagon, stagecoach, etc. → 1840 US obs.
► RABBLE a carelessly erected building, wall, etc; a confused or ruinous mass; anything ruinous or dilapidated; any kind of building falling into decay → 1866 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RATTLE-TRAP a worn-out, rickety vehicle; anything old and dilapidated; a makeshift contrivance → 1888 Eng. dial.

VERBS
► DECAY to waste or ruin physically; to disintegrate, to dilapidate; to bring to decay or ruin → 1536 obs.
► DELABRATE to dilapidate, to ruin → 1813 obs.