dereliction
noun/dɛɹ.ɪˈlɪk.ʃən/US
Etymology
From Latin dērelictiō (“neglect, abandonment”), from dērelinquō (“to neglect, abandon”), from dē- + re- + linquō (“to leave”).
Definitions
Willful neglect of one's duty.
- The new soldier did not clean his cabin and was scolded for dereliction and disobedience.
- What he did was a terrible dereliction of duty.
- […] there on the table were the uncleared remains of Thursday's lunch, plain evidence of someone's dereliction.
The act of abandoning something, or the state of being abandoned.
- To this we must contend with prayer , with actual dereliction and seposition of all our other affairs
- There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.
- After years of unsympathetic commercial use and dereliction, nothing of note remained inside, which accordingly has been reconfigured with modern amenities such as underfloor heating.
Land gained from the water by a change of water-line.
The neighborhood
- neighborderelict
- neighborrelinquish
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for dereliction. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA