disrepair

Word family (noun) repair disrepair (adjective) repairable irreparable (verb) repair (adverb) irreparably

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdisrepairdis‧re‧pair /ˌdɪsrɪˈpeə $ -ˈper/ noun [uncountable] TTRTBbuildings, roads etc that are in disrepair are in bad condition because they have not been cared for buildings allowed to fall into disrepair The castle is in a state of disrepair.Examples from the Corpusdisrepair• Half of its vehicles were in disrepair without replacement parts.• Many of the apartment buildings fell into disrepair from the 1950s on, some so badly that the city demolished them.• But it fell into disrepair earlier this century when the water dried up.• There was no evidence, however, that older material was necessarily in a greater state of disrepair than more modern publications.• I do not know which was the one whose state of disrepair forced the closure.• It loomed over the Angara River like a great rectangular tombstone, moldering toward oblivion in stunning disrepair.• She had heard enough from the Julians to recognise in the disrepair something of the troubles of the Dersinghams.in a state of disrepair• Our nation's schools are in a sorry state of disrepair.• Most of them were in states of disrepair.

单词	disrepair
释义	disrepair Word family (noun) repair disrepair (adjective) repairable irreparable (verb) repair (adverb) irreparably From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdisrepairdis‧re‧pair /ˌdɪsrɪˈpeə $ -ˈper/ noun [uncountable] TTRTBbuildings, roads etc that are in disrepair are in bad condition because they have not been cared for buildings allowed to fall into disrepair The castle is in a state of disrepair.Examples from the Corpusdisrepair• Half of its vehicles were in disrepair without replacement parts.• Many of the apartment buildings fell into disrepair from the 1950s on, some so badly that the city demolished them.• But it fell into disrepair earlier this century when the water dried up.• There was no evidence, however, that older material was necessarily in a greater state of disrepair than more modern publications.• I do not know which was the one whose state of disrepair forced the closure.• It loomed over the Angara River like a great rectangular tombstone, moldering toward oblivion in stunning disrepair.• She had heard enough from the Julians to recognise in the disrepair something of the troubles of the Dersinghams.in a state of disrepair• Our nation's schools are in a sorry state of disrepair.• Most of them were in states of disrepair.
随便看	in a terrible etc condition in a terrible etc state in a tight corner in a tight corner/spot in a tight spot in a timely fashion in a timely manner in a timely manner/fashion in a tizzy in a tone in a towering rage in a trance in a trice in a turmoil in a twinkling in a two weeks etc in a vacuum in a vein in a very real sense in a vision in a way in a way in a week weeks etc in a week/two weeks etc in a wheelchair