disrepair
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disrepair (countable and uncountable, plural disrepairs)
- The state of being in poor condition, in need of repair.
- The sewing machine is in disrepair.
- The house had fallen into such disrepair that no agent would show it to buyers.
- 1962 January, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region: Midland Lines”, in Modern Railways, page 59:
- All the A.C.V. four-wheel diesel railbuses are now stored in seeming disrepair at Derby Friargate.
- 2017 January 20, Donald Trump, Inauguration speech:
- We've defended other nations' borders while refusing to defend our own, and spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America's infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay.
- 2023 October 18, 'Industry Insider', “High speed abandoned”, in RAIL, number 994, page 68:
- The overriding reason that the public estate - be it roads, hospitals or schools - has fallen into disrepair is the continuing lack of economic growth, which has meant no budget can be found to keep assets in a good state of repair.
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the state of being in poor condition
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disrepair (third-person singular simple present disrepairs, present participle disrepairing, simple past and past participle disrepaired)
- (intransitive, rare) To get into a state of disrepair.
- 1971, John Oliver Killens, The Cotillion, Or, One Good Bull is Half the Herd[1]:
- The house was disrepairing before your very eyes.