The phrase "already dilapidated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is in a state of disrepair or ruin, indicating that it was in that condition prior to the current time.
Example: "The building had been abandoned for years and was already dilapidated when the city decided to renovate it."
Alternatives: "previously in ruins" or "already in disrepair".
Town hall chiefs have demanded emergency cash to deal with a "daunting trail of destruction" to the already dilapidated network left behind by recent flooding.
Already dilapidated when its most recent occupant died, the house that the Morans built in 1884, a national historic landmark, has fallen further into disrepair.
He seems to have choked on his own vomit after an unrestrained bender, his powerful constitution already dilapidated after prolonged abuse - though at the inquest his internal organs were found to be in excellent condition.
"I think it would devastate an already dilapidated infrastructure, it would create divisions within the international community, it would raise questions about the legitimacy of the new Venezuelan authorities, it would set an awful precedent for the region," says Benjamin Gedan of the Wilson Centre in Washington and former South America director on the National Security Council.
Rumored to have started in the DJ box, the blaze quickly took hold of the already dilapidated structure and though the few staff inside got out unharmed, one end of the building completely collapsed, narrowly missing the 25 firefighters battling to subdue the blaze.
Rumoured to have started in the DJ box the blaze quickly took hold of the already dilapidated structure and though the few staff inside got out unharmed, one end of the building completely collapsed, narrowly missing the 25 firefighters battling to subdue the blaze.
So far, Mr. Grandi said, 36,000 Palestinians already living as refugees in Syria have crossed the border into Lebanon, mostly cramming into already overcrowded, dilapidated refugee camps.
In the Qianmen area, for example, a once poor but thriving neighborhood south of Tiananmen Square that was home to many of the city's teahouses and theaters, hutongs have been replaced by shopping malls and office blocks with ugly postmodern facades that already look dilapidated, although many are only a few years old.
Schiff worried, however, that responding to North Korea with a cyberattack may backfire: North Korea "can do a lot more damage to us in a cyber battle, given our exposure and given that (its) infrastructure is already so dilapidated," he said.
A block from the Red Hook waterfront stands Brooklyn Crab, a shanty writ large, three stories high and already looking faintly dilapidated, although it was built this past year.
Activists worry this could further dismantle the Detroit neighborhoods already pockmarked with vacant land and dilapidated housing.
