Decrepit
[dɪ'krepɪt] or [dɪ'krɛpɪt]
Definition
(adj.) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; 'a feeble old woman'; 'her body looked sapless' .
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Definition
(a.) Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Superannuated, effete, worn or broken down with age, infirm through age.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Infirm, weak, crippled, superannuated, effete, broken-down, enfeebled,tottering, aged
ANT:Strong, robust, agile, youthful, active
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Definition
adj. worn out by the infirmities of old age: in the last stage of decay.—ns. Decrep′itness; Decrep′itude state of being decrepit or worn out with age.
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Examples
- The object of his search and his unrelenting animosity, now a decrepit old man, was seated at a bare deal table, on which stood a miserable candle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In a very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He lies upon his bed, an aged man with sunken cheeks, the decrepit shadow of himself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit, said Will, with irrepressible quickness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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