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单词 decrepit
释义
decrepit
(dɪkrepɪt )
adjective
Something that is decrepit is old and in bad condition. Someone who is decrepit is old and weak.
The film had been shot in a decrepit old police station.
Synonyms: ruined, broken-down, battered, crumbling  
Collocations:
decrepit house
He returns to the house, now abandoned, and begins to live there in the empty, decrepit house.
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While eating a stew filled with human entrails, they accept his offer to sleep at the decrepit house, and manage to stay alive.
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The video shows the band playing in a decrepit house.
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He lived in a decrepit house in the poor section of town.
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Agents across the country are witnessing extraordinary (in the current climate) bidding wars for decrepit houses.
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decrepit infrastructure
Over the next five years, it needs to spend about $1 trillion revamping its decrepit infrastructure, ministers said last month.
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Poor maintenance of decrepit infrastructure and a lack of diesel have been blamed for the latest shortages.
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Looters had wrecked the decrepit infrastructure.
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