derelict

Du latin derelictus, participe passé de derelinquo (« abandonner ») dérivé de relinquere (« laisser, abandonner ») avec le préfixe de-.

derelict \ˈdɛrəlɪkt\

1. Abandonné, délaissé, à l’abandon.
   • There was a derelict ship on the island.
   1. (En particulier) (Marine) Abandonné en mer.
2. Délabré, négligé, en ruines.
3. Négligent dans l’accomplissement d’une tâche.

derelict \ˈdɛrəlɪkt\

1. Bien abandonné.
   • Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May". / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then "Here", said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum." — (Robert W. Service, The Cremation of Sam McGee, 1907)
   1. (En particulier) (Marine) Bateau abandonné en mer ; épave.
      • There were three of the derelicts. Perhaps they’d been towed in together. The tugboat skippers had probably tried to leave them in a perfect line as a personal conceit. — (Tom Clancy, Without Remorse, 1993.)
2. (Vieilli) Paria, clochard ; personne abandonnée ou délaissée.
   • A rather pathetic figure, the Lady Frances, a beautiful woman, still in fresh middle age, and yet, by a strange chance, the last derelict of what only twenty years ago was a goodly fleet. — (Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax 1911)
3. Personne négligente.

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