Definitions for derelicts

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derelicts der·e·lict

Spelling: [der-uh-likt]

IPA: /ˈdɛr ə lɪkt/

Derelicts is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 553 anagrams from letters in derelicts (cdeeilrst).

Definitions for derelicts

noun

1. a person abandoned by society, especially a person without a permanent home and means of support; vagrant; bum.
2. Nautical. a vessel abandoned in open water by its crew without any hope or intention of returning.
3. personal property abandoned or thrown away by the owner.
4. one guilty of neglect of duty.
5. Law. land left dry by a change of the water line.

adjective

1. left or deserted, as by the owner or guardian; abandoned:
2. neglectful of duty; delinquent; negligent.

Origin of derelicts

1640-50; Latin dērelictus forsaken (past participle of dērelinquere), equivalent to dē- de- + relictus past participle of relinquere to leave, abandon; see Examples for derelicts

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

Always glad to pick up a derelict, may be a chance for salvage, you know.

The barrier of stigma wedged between a person and others they deem “dirty” or “derelict” will not keep AIDS at bay.

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

Had he been derelict in duty and let this lamb wander from the fold?

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.

We are going to help the derelict division of French in every way we can.

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

The derelict's forehead is punched in, starred across, and rent diagonally.

Meanwhile the ship drifted, a derelict on the face of the Pacific.