Dilapidate vs Debilitate - What's the difference?
dilapidate | debilitate |
To fall into ruin or disuse.
To cause to become ruined or put into disrepair.
* Blackstone
* 1883 , , chapter VI
(figuratively) To squander or waste.
* Wood
To make feeble; to weaken.
As verbs the difference between dilapidate and debilitate
is that dilapidate is to fall into ruin or disuse while debilitate is to make feeble; to weaken.dilapidate
English
Verb
(dilapidat)- If the bishop, parson, or vicar, etc., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony
- In the last days of autumn he had whitewashed the chalet, painted the doors, windows, and veranda, repaired the roof and interior, and improved the place so much that the landlord had warned him that the rent would be raised at the expiration of his twelvemonth's tenancy, remarking that a tenant could not reasonably expect to have a pretty, rain-tight dwelling-house for the same money as a hardly habitable ruin. Smilash had immediately promised to dilapidate it to its former state at the end of the year.
- The patrimony of the bishopric of Oxon was much dilapidated .
debilitate
English
Verb
- The American Dream suffered a debilitating effect after the subprime crisis.
