dilapidate

Other forms of dilapidate

past tense

dilapidated·

present participle

dilapidating·

third person

dilapidates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dilapidate

What does dilapidate mean?

dilapidate means "bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dilapidate?

dilapidate has 4 syllables: di-lap-i-date. The stress falls on "lap". In IPA it is /dəˈlæpəˌdeɪt/.

What is another word for dilapidate?

Close synonyms include decay, crumble. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dilapidate a common word?

dilapidate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dilapidate?

14 words rhyme with dilapidate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.