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[ dih-krep-i-tood, -tyood ] / dɪˈkrɛp ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud / SEE SYNONYMS FOR decrepitude ON THESAURUS.COM
noundecrepit condition; dilapidated state; feebleness, especially from old age. Origin of decrepitude1595–1605; <French décrépitude, derivative of décrépitdecrepit; see -tude Words nearby decrepitudedecrement, decremeter, decreolize, decrepit, decrepitate, decrepitude, decresc., decrescendo, decrescent, decretal, Decretals Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for decrepitudeFace it, we like our blues singers to show some signs of decrepitude. Do Blues Musicians Need to be Really, Really Old?|Ted Gioia|September 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST I speak not, of course, of the decrepitude of old age and of the decay of the faculties. In the School-Room|John S. Hart The old Commedia dell' Arte, as we have seen, had sunk into decrepitude. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first|Count Carlo Gozzi In passing from your threshold, I leave the curse, due to decrepitude, behind me. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864|Various
His body feeble and emaciated, his mind stripped of its distinguishing faculties, he rapidly sunk into decrepitude. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnus|William MacGillivray He seemed an image of decrepitude, a symbol of approaching death. All Men are Ghosts|L. P. Jacks
Words related to decrepitudeweakness, age, infirmity, dilapidation, decay |