dilapidate

verb [vt. 及物动词] 毁坏；浪费；荒废

Correspondingly, more and more students who live off-campus go wrong easily and dilapidate their study. And many crimes are thus committed by them. 相对应的，校外租房居住大学生中误入歧途、荒废学业等问题开始增多，并出现了不少针对他们的犯罪案件。