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Decrepit

//dɪˈkɹɛp.ɪt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Weakened or worn out from age or wear.

    "Sorrow is subdued by strong necessity; there is no cause why life should be lengthened for our love; and we feel that the worn and the decrepit do but go down into that grave which had received youth, health, beauty,—all that made existence precious—long before."

Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality wordnet
  2. 2
    worn and broken down by hard use wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English decrepyt (ante 1439), from Middle French décrépit, from Latin dēcrepitus (“very old”), from crepō (“to creak”).

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