Thesaurus / disrepair
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Structural racism led to numerous other obstacles like poverty and overcrowding, and the area became notorious for danger and disrepair.
HOW AN UNSOLVED MURDER AND A PUBLIC HOUSING CRISIS LED TO CANDYMANAJA ROMANOAUGUST 27, 2021VOXYou inherit your grandfather’s farm, which has fallen into disrepair.
GO BIG, BUT DON’T GO HOME WITH THE BEST NINTENDO SWITCH GAMES WHEN OUT AND ABOUTBILLY CADDENJULY 18, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEAbout half of the more than 1,800 buildings and structures in the area, some of which date back a thousand years and are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, have been in disrepair for years.
HOW TO SAVE THE STRUCTURES WE LOVE MOSTSTEPHEN STARRJUNE 28, 2021OZYHis cofounder, Joe Lonsdale, who grew up in Fremont and attended Stanford, penned a Wall Street Journal editorial explaining his 2020 move to Austin saying that California had “fallen into disrepair” due to “bad policies.”
HOW TO FIND TOMORROW’S SILICON VALLEYSSEAN CULLIGANMAY 26, 2021OZYLandlords were fined under nuisance ordinances for letting their buildings fall into disrepair, for harboring drug users and gang activity, and for leasing apartments to people with criminal records.
'YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE REMAINING.' WHY I'LL ALWAYS DROP EVERYTHING TO ANSWER MY BROTHER'S CALLS FROM PRISONREUBEN JONATHAN MILLERFEBRUARY 16, 2021TIMEThese huts had been built by sealing gangs many years ago and were in a sad state of disrepair.
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARDDOUGLAS MAWSONThe prebendal houses fell into disrepair, and in some cases a plot had been assigned, but no house had been built.
BELL'S CATHEDRALS: THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF RIPONCECIL WALTER CHARLES HALLETTAnd yet the permanent way of almost every railway is falling into bad disrepair, the roads are shocking.
SEA AND SARDINIAD. H. LAWRENCESorters seize upon it and separate it and classify it according to kind and state of disrepair.
THE GLORY OF THE COMINGIRVIN S. COBBUnhappily the church was allowed, during the later part of the eighteenth century, to fall into a terrible state of disrepair.
FROM THE NORTH FORELAND TO PENZANCECLIVE HOLLANDWORDS RELATED TO DISREPAIR
- atrophy
- bane
- bankruptcy
- bath
- breakdown
- collapse
- confusion
- crack up
- crash
- crumbling
- damage
- decay
- defeat
- degeneracy
- degeneration
- demolition
- destitution
- destruction
- deterioration
- dilapidation
- disintegration
- disrepair
- dissolution
- downfall
- downgrade
- extinction
- failure
- fall
- havoc
- insolvency
- loss
- nemesis
- overthrow
- ruination
- skids
- subversion
- the end
- undoing
- waste
- waterloo
- wreck
- wreckage
- adulteration
- atrophy
- blight
- breakdown
- caries
- consumption
- corrosion
- crumbling
- decadence
- decline
- decomposition
- decrease
- decrepitude
- degeneracy
- degeneration
- depreciation
- deterioration
- dilapidation
- disintegration
- disrepair
- dissolution
- downfall
- dying
- extinction
- fading
- failing
- gangrene
- impairment
- mortification
- perishing
- putrefaction
- putrescence
- putridity
- putridness
- rot
- rottenness
- rotting
- ruin
- ruination
- rust
- senescence
- spoilation
- wasting
- wasting away
- withering
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