സാധാരണയായി പ്രായം, അവഗണന അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ദുരുപയോഗം എന്നിവയുടെ ഫലമായി "ജീർണ്ണിച്ച" എന്ന വാക്കിന്റെ നിഘണ്ടു അർത്ഥം കേടായതോ ഭാഗികമായതോ ആയ അവസ്ഥയിലാണ്. ജീർണിച്ചതോ തകരുന്നതോ ആയ ഒരു കെട്ടിടത്തെയോ വാഹനത്തെയോ മറ്റ് ഭൗതിക ഘടനയെയും ഇത് സൂചിപ്പിക്കാം. ജീർണിച്ചതിന്റെ പര്യായങ്ങളിൽ റൺ-ഡൗൺ, ഡെക്രിപിറ്റ്, ഷാബി, ഡെറിലിക്റ്റ്, റാംഷാക്കിൾ എന്നിവ ഉൾപ്പെടുന്നു.
1. Motes hover in bands of sunlight filtering in through dilapidated shutters.
2. Heading for the mountain I take the first right and wend up Calle las Eras, past rows of old farmhouses, some freshly renovated, others old, dilapidated, crumbling.
3. The reflection from the windshield of a black SUV across the street forced me to squint as I took in the dilapidated neighborhood.
4. Murdock ate them all that morning, hoping they would provide enough fuel for his dilapidated body.
5. Moving across the room, she focused on the dilapidated painting hanging over the bookcase.
6. With a sigh, Kayla pushed away the errant thoughts in order to focus again on the dilapidated room.
7. Arthur shook his head in dismay at the sight of homeless people dumpster-diving for food, at the run-down, graffiti-covered, dilapidated homes and apartment complexes, at the prison-like housing projects.
8. The houses and apartment buildings looked battered and dilapidated, with dead or overgrown lawns and trash littering the streets.
9. Now it was a dilapidated shell the lower floors in the hands of the recyclers, with the vast unused majority of the plant little more than a warehouse for memories and ghosts.
10. One of the soldiers by the door lost his breakfast as a dilapidated body on a gurney was carried past him.