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infirm

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1. infirm - Adjective

2. infirm - Verb

3. infirm - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not firm or sound; weak; feeble; as, an infirm body; an infirm constitution.

Weak of mind or will; irresolute; vacillating.

Not solid or stable; insecure; precarious.

To weaken; to enfeeble.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor. Christopher Columbus

The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a better day. Walter Scott

The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone. Eric Rücker Eddison

It is a want of feeling to talk of priests and bells while so many infants are perishing in the hospitals, and aged and infirm poor in the streets, from the want of necessaries. Thomas Paine

Master, Master of Light, Whose eye dwells in the seeking fingers of the blind, You are still despised and mocked, A man too weak and infirm to be God, A God too much man to call forth adoration. Kahlil Gibran

Because I do not hope to know The infirm glory of the positive hour Because I do not think Because I know I shall not know The one veritable transitory power Because I cannot drink There, where trees flower, and springs flow, for there is nothing again. T. S. Eliot

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