derelictadjective
uk/ˈder.ə.lɪkt/us/ˈder.ə.lɪkt/Derelict buildings or places are not cared for and are in bad condition:
a derelict site
The theatre has been left to stand/lie derelict.
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In bad condition
- battered
- battle-scarred
- be on the skids idiom
- beat up
- blasted
- have seen better days idiom
- hors de combat
- impair
- in good, bad, etc. repair idiom
- kaput
- scuff
- shabby
- shattered
- shop-soiled
- shopworn
- worn out
- worse
- worsen
- wrack
- wrecked
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derelictnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈder.ə.lɪkt/us/ˈder.ə.lɪkt/formala person who has no home or money and often lives outside
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Homelessness
- bag lady
- be of/have no fixed abode/address idiom
- dosser
- down-and-out
- fixed
- hobo
- hostel
- housing benefit
- mendicant
- on the streets idiom
- rootless
- rough
- sleep
- street
- street people
- tramp
- traveller
- vagabond
- vagrant
- waif
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