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decrepit

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1. decrepit - Adjective

2. decrepit - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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And what's a life? A weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age. Francis Quarles

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. George Eliot

When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union - like public housing in the United States - look decrepit within a year or two of their construction. Milton Friedman

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck. Jerome K. Jerome

You're as worthless as one of that decrepit mob. Lucifer has rejected you. Now mankind rejects you. Have the good taste, Sir, to accept a fact! Michael Moorcock

The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole. Aubrey de Grey

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