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derelict

/der-uh-likt/US // ˈdɛr ə lɪkt //UK // (ˈdɛrɪlɪkt) //

废弃的,荒废的,荒废,遗弃者

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : left or deserted, as by the owner or guardian; abandoned: a derelict ship.
    • : neglectful of duty; delinquent; negligent.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person abandoned by society, especially a person without a permanent home and means of support; vagrant; bum.
    • : Nautical. a vessel abandoned in open water by its crew without any hope or intention of returning.
    • : personal property abandoned or thrown away by the owner.
    • : one guilty of neglect of duty.
    • : Law. land left dry by a change of the water line.

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Examples

  • The couple has bought one of Detroit’s many derelict homes, which can cost just a few thousand dollars, and are renovating it themselves.

  • Right now, what we still don't know about the remake could fill a haunted derelict infested with ravenous space zombies—and that's intentional.

  • Congress and the media would be derelict not to examine the decisions by Fauci and others that led to this collaboration.

  • The funds would be used for the renovation of derelict public schools, including remodeling and repainting deteriorating buildings and upgrading bathrooms to make them “more modern.”

  • She encounters a derelict starship, hostile androids, and — of course — an Alien.

  • We stood on the rooftop of a derelict farmhouse meters away from a Turkish tank and a razor wire fence marking the end of Turkey.

  • Today, all that remains of these Jewish holiday centers is a constellation of derelict buildings.

  • He remembers, for example, living in Brooklyn Heights and trying to get booze from the “derelict liquor story nearby.”

  • The Daily Pic: In 1904 in Manhattan, the great Guastavino Co. gave palatial roofing to a subway station that's now derelict.

  • There were housing projects, and some truly derelict hotels where the very-down-on-their-luck lived.

  • A fair ship on a fair sea soon parts company with a derelict—unless it tows it.

  • Yet he had gone twice in the fortnight at her call to help her through stormy nights with the derelict.

  • Erdil is a tiny derelict Christian village situated in the Oramar valley a little above its confluence with the Zab.

  • A dead ship, a derelict, come to them by merest chance from some unthinkably remote star.

  • Eyes turned curiously on the shambling derelict, but the only expression on Newt's face was one of surly defiance to the world.