Concept cluster: Physical processes > Neglect or disrepair
adj
(of eggs) Bad, rotten; inviable, containing a dead embryo.
adj
Damaged by alligatoring.
adj
broken down; broken; wrecked; messed up
adj
(chiefly of an object, informal) Worn out by overuse; in a state of disrepair
adj
Wet and limp; unkempt.
adj
Of a horse, no longer useful for work or riding due to illness or infirmity.
n
(literally) A damaged piece of luggage
adj
(obsolete) broken; fissured
n
(among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.
n
The ruins of a broken-down structure.
adj
(South Africa, derogatory) mixed up; heterogeneous; without a clear single identity or social status
adj
Torn apart.
adj
(figuratively) Ragged, worn-out; also, hackneyed, tired.
adj
Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.
adj
(informal) Thoroughly involved; hands-on.
adj
(idiomatic, by extension) Shabbily dressed, slovenly; impoverished; shabby, dilapidated.
adj
(US, dialectal, Appalachia) Poor-looking; shabby
n
A series of negligible amounts.
adj
(of wood, obsolete outside dialects) Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish colour; rotten, decayed.
n
That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
adj
(obsolete) Decayed; mouldy.
adj
Decrepit or dilapidated
adj
Frayed at the edges.
adj
(often with up) Lethargic and confused.
adj
Knotty and misshapen.
adj
(of an animal) Wild or untamed
n
(of horse racing) Going (i.e. conditions) that are wet and muddy (difficult to gallop on)
adj
Having an untidy appearance; not well-groomed; unkempt.
adj
(informal) Injured or damaged; with the appearance of having been treated roughly.
adj
(UK, Ireland, South Africa, colloquial) Broken, inoperative.
adj
Imperfect, makeshift; ramshackle, second-rate.
adj
Looking like someone currently lives there or has lived there, not pristine, not new
adj
(nautical) worn; fretted
v
To soften (literally or figuratively)
n
(colloquial, obsolete) The doldrums; the blahs; a downer; a mood of depression, dejection or melancholy.
adj
(obsolete, UK, dialect) Mellow, as land.
adj
(by extension) Shabby, or in a poor plight.
adj
Sturdy in old age
adj
Badly or carelessly organized.
n
A dilapidated building, a place that is run down and unsanitary.
adj
(obsolete) Grown rank; rancid; rusty.
adj
Affected with or suffering from rickets.
adj
Damaged throughout by holes.
v
Synonym of turn rusty (“become stubborn in opposition”)
adj
Torn apart.
adj
(colloquial, Southern US) Alternative form of ridden hard and put away wet (“in either sense”) [(idiomatic) Mistreated; not properly cared for.]
adj
Worn; shabby; weather-beaten.
adj
Strewn with rubble.
adj
Strewn with rubble.
adj
(of a place) Decrepit.
adj
Having rusted completely; having become covered in rust; having become non-functional over time.
adj
Looking like a schlump; slovenly or unbecoming
adj
(of appliances and the like) New but cosmetically damaged during handling.
adj
Inferior in size or quality.
adj
(falconry, of a hawk) Out of condition; not in good condition.
adj
(obsolete) Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out.
adj
Poor; showing little effort or talent.
adj
Keeping up or affecting an appearance of gentility, though actually shabby.
adj
(slang, vulgar) Extremely tired.
adj
(UK, slang) exhausted (as if with sexual activity)
adj
(Northern England, Scotland) mild, gentle; shy, bashful, timid, reluctant, unmotivated
adj
(of a horse) Having the sinews under the belly shrunk by excessive fatigue.
adj
Composed of slabs; resembling a slab or slabs; inelegant, cumbersome, clunky.
n
Any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
adj
Characteristic of an economic slump.
adj
(UK, dialect) soft like overripe fruit
adj
Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn
adj
(obsolete, regional Britain) Stiff, unsocial, rough in manner.
adj
(of cloth) shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show
adj
(simile, vulgar) Extremely tight; mean; excessively thrifty.
n
Synonym of dumpy level
adj
in disrepair; poorly maintained
adj
Extensively damaged as a result of war.
adj
(of an animal, or a meat) too fat, as opposed to meaty
adj
(of a horse) Used to the way; broken in.
n
(archaic) Used in similes to describe the appearance of an untidy or bedraggled person.
adj
Damaged, run-down.

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