Decrepit

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use. See Synonyms at weak.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Weakened or worn out from age or wear
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Broken down in health, physical or mental, especially from age; wasted or worn by infirmities; weakened, especially by age.
  • In geology, said of rivers that have reached the last stages of their existence, or of that portion of a drainage-course which has reached base-level and where deposition along the bed exceeds the amount removed by floods.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
  • adj. worn and broken down by hard use
  • Equivalent
    frail    worn   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    feeble    weak    weakened   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ramshackle    dilapidated    broken-down    infirm    worn-out