She was sinking into her dotage.
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Dotage
//ˈdoʊtɪd͡ʒ//
Synonyms for "dotage" (71 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
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1 entriesis a
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15 entriesTranslations
38 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- изкуфяване noun (senility)
- сенилност noun (senility)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 失智症 noun (senility)
- 老耄 noun (senility)
- 老迷糊 noun (senility)
Czech
2 entries- senilita noun (senility)
- senilnost noun (senility)
Dutch
2 entries- dementie noun (senility)
- seniliteit noun (senility)
Finnish
1 entries- vanhuudenhöperöys noun (senility)
French
2 entries- débilité sénile noun (senility)
- sénilité noun (senility)
Galician
1 entries- senilidade noun (senility)
German
2 entries- Altersschwäche noun (senility)
- Senilität noun (senility)
Greek
2 entries- ξεμώραμα noun (senility)
- παλιμπαιδισμός noun (senility)
Hungarian
4 entries- elgyengültség noun (senility)
- elgyengülés noun (senility)
- gyengeség noun (senility)
- időskor noun (senility)
Japanese
3 entries- もうろく noun (senility)
- 耄碌 noun (senility)
- 認知症 noun (senility)
Mongolian
1 entries- зөнөглөх noun (senility)
Māori
1 entries- pēperekōutanga noun (senility)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Ellaschwakheit noun (senility)
Polish
1 entries- zdziecinnienie noun (senility)
Russian
2 entries- ста́рческий мара́зм noun (senility)
- ста́рческое слабоу́мие noun (senility)
Spanish
2 entries- chochez noun (senility)
- senilidad noun (senility)
Turkish
1 entries- ihtiyarlık noun (senility)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
"More care!" said the old man in a shrill voice, […] there were in his face marks of deep and anxious thought which convinced me that he could not be, as I had been at first inclined to suppose, in a state of dotage or imbecility.
Source: wiktionary
Claudio And ſhe is exceeding wiſe. Prince In euery thing but in louing Benedicke. […] I would ſhee had beſtowed this dotage on mee, […]
Source: wiktionary
No leſs are they out of the way in Philoſophy, peſtring their heads with the ſapleſs dotages of old Paris and Salamanca.
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