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Derelict   /dˈɛrəlˌɪkt/   Listen
Derelict

adjective
1.
Worn and broken down by hard use.  Synonyms: creaky, decrepit, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone.  "A decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape" , "A flea-bitten sofa" , "A run-down neighborhood" , "A woebegone old shack"
2.
Forsaken by owner or inhabitants.  Synonyms: abandoned, deserted.
3.
Failing in what duty requires.  Synonyms: delinquent, neglectful, remiss.  "Neglectful of his duties" , "Remiss of you not to pay your bills"
4.
In deplorable condition.  Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down.  "A broken-down fence" , "A ramshackle old pier" , "A tumble-down shack"
noun
1.
A person without a home, job, or property.
2.
A ship abandoned on the high seas.  Synonym: abandoned ship.





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"Derelict" Quotes from Famous Books



... honesty, and industry without a peer. She hated to dress or to leave the kitchen, but she washed, baked, and did the housework without assistance, and was kind to the children. These constituted her inner circle, but she was always taking in and caring for derelict children. At this time there were several in the house or yard. Two were twins five months old, whom she had found lying on the ground discarded and forlorn, and who had developed into beautiful children. Their father ...
— Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary • W. P. Livingstone
... the companion and left Marjorie and her father below, until he was called to have his coffee. When they went on deck again Corregidor Island was astern, rising out of the channel like a derelict battleship. ...
— Isle o' Dreams • Frederick F. Moore
... but this is not one of them; there are admonitions, probations, suspensions, in several minor cases; mercy is shown the derelict, in those cases he is gently used, and in time he can get back into the fold—even when he has repeated his offence. But let him think, just once, without getting his thinker set to Eddy time, and that is enough; his head comes off. There is no second offence, and there ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... judging from the screeds that were received as to "the true spirit of salvage" we were wrong, and found that the returns of salvage that got the most marks were those containing such items as "socks 200" (got generally from derelict Quarter-Master's Stores found in the forward area, and packed into a limber in about half-a-minute), but the work entailed in hauling 18-pounders and limbers out of dangerous parts of the front, apparently counted for little. Towards the end ...
— The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 - History of the 1/8th Battalion • W.C.C. Weetman
... That meant that its gyros were stopped; that it was helpless, drifting, disabled, powerless to avoid hurtling meteoric stones. Had it blundered unawares into the belt of swarms—been struck before the danger was realized? Was it a derelict, ...
— Salvage in Space • John Stewart Williamson


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