verb
- Bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse.
- synonyms: dilapidate
- Fall into decay or ruin.
- usage: "The unoccupied house started to decay"
- synonyms: decay, crumble, dilapidate
adjective
- In deplorable condition.
- usage: "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
- synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down
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