All dilapidate antonyms

verb dilapidate

• honour — to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
• construct — to draw (a line, angle, or figure) so that certain requirements are satisfied
• aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
• assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
• benefit — The benefit of something is the help that you get from it or the advantage that results from it.
• improve — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
• mend — to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing: to mend old clothes; to mend a broken toy.
• adorn — If something adorns a place or an object, it makes it look more beautiful.
• beautify — If you beautify something, you make it look more beautiful.
• ornament — an accessory, article, or detail used to beautify the appearance of something to which it is added or of which it is a part: architectural ornaments.
• heal — to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment.
• create — To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.
• grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
• build — If you build something, you make it by joining things together.
• fix — to repair; mend.
• help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
• decorate — If you decorate something, you make it more attractive by adding things to it.
• cure — If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.
• smooth — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
• repair — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
• surrender — to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
• fasten — to attach firmly or securely in place; fix securely to something else.
• lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
• raise — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
• strengthen — to make stronger; give strength to.
• produce — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
• rebuild — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
• restore — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
• commence — When something commences or you commence it, it begins.
• increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
• prolong — to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
• begin — To begin to do something means to start doing it.
• start — to begin or set out, as on a journey or activity.
• bear — If you bear something somewhere, you carry it there or take it there.
• advance — To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
• reach — to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore.
• win — to finish first in a race, contest, or the like.
• appear — If you say that something appears to be the way you describe it, you are reporting what you believe or what you have been told, though you cannot be sure it is true.
• arrive — When a person or vehicle arrives at a place, they come to it at the end of a journey.
• rise — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
• develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
• flourish — to be in a vigorous state; thrive: a period in which art flourished.
• continue — If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop.
• forge — to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
• forward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
• live — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
• combine — If you combine two or more things or if they combine, they exist together.
• put together — assemble
• unite — to join, combine, or incorporate so as to form a single whole or unit.
• connect — If something or someone connects one thing to another, or if one thing connects to another, the two things are joined together.