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disrepair

noun as in state of deterioration

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Years of looting for treasure and building materials, left Kayakoy in a sad state of disrepair.

As the Cold War died down and nuclear destruction never came to fruition, the underground complex slowly slipped into disrepair.

In much of the DRC, roads are in a woeful state of disrepair, and in Goma, the conditions are especially dire.

However, Don ends up ceding the LA office to Ted, leaving his marriage in a desperate state of disrepair.

With few Yankees left to vilify, Venezuela continues its slow motion spin into disrepair.

These huts had been built by sealing gangs many years ago and were in a sad state of disrepair.

The prebendal houses fell into disrepair, and in some cases a plot had been assigned, but no house had been built.

And yet the permanent way of almost every railway is falling into bad disrepair, the roads are shocking.

Sorters seize upon it and separate it and classify it according to kind and state of disrepair.

Unhappily the church was allowed, during the later part of the eighteenth century, to fall into a terrible state of disrepair.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to disrepair, such as: decay, collapse, decrepitude, dilapidation, and ruination.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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