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English to English adjective
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Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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worn and broken down by hard use | | Example: a creaky shack
a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape
a flea-bitten sofa
a run-down neighborhood
a woebegone old shack
source: wordnet30
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forsaken by owner or inhabitants | | Example: weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse
source: wordnet30
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failing in what duty requires | | Example: derelict (or delinquent) in his duty
neglectful of his duties
remiss of you not to pay your bills
source: wordnet30
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in deplorable condition | | Example: a street of bedraggled tenements
a broken-down fence
a ramshackle old pier
a tumble-down shack
source: wordnet30 noun
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a person without a home, job, or property | | source: wordnet30
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a ship abandoned on the high seas | | source: wordnet30
| 8 |
A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea. | | source: webster1913
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