If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.
例句
The previous owners had rescued the building from dereliction.这座建筑之前的业主将其从破败不堪的状况中挽救了出来。
英英词典释义
Noun
1. a tendency to be negligent and uncaring;
"he inherited his delinquency from his father""his derelictions were not really intended as crimes""his adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities"