释义
v.
archaic cause (something) to fall into disrepair or ruin
〈古〉 使破损;使毁灭;使坍塌。
词源
"early 16th cent. (in the sense ‘waste, squander’): from Latin dilapidat- ‘demolished, squandered', from the verb dilapidare, literally ‘scatter as if throwing stones', from di- ‘apart, abroad'+ lapis, lapid- ‘stone’."