dilapidate是什么意思_dilapidate的用法_词性_词根

双语例句

If you don't exercise, you don't keep your body up, it dilapidates pretty quickly.

如果你不运动不保持身体健康那身体就很快腐朽了
Correspondingly, more and more students who live off-campus go wrong easily and dilapidate their study. And many crimes are thus committed by them.

相对应的，校外租房居住大学生中误入歧途、荒废学业等问题开始增多，并出现了不少针对他们的犯罪案件。

近义词

vi.

do for
play havoc with

vt.

destroy
damage

同根词

词根 dilapidate

dilapidated adj. 荒废的，要塌似的；破坏的 v. 变得荒废（dilapidate的过去分词）
dilapidation n. 破损；崩塌；荒废

释义

archaic cause (something) to fall into disrepair or ruin

〈古〉使破损；使毁灭；使坍塌。

词源

"early 16th cent. （in the sense ‘waste, squander’）： from Latin dilapidat- ‘demolished, squandered', from the verb dilapidare, literally ‘scatter as if throwing stones', from di- ‘apart, abroad'+ lapis, lapid- ‘stone’."