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decrepit 音標拼音: [dəkr'ɛpɪt] a. 衰老的 衰老的 decrepit adj 1: worn and broken down by hard use; " a creaky shack"; " a decrepit bus... its seats held together with friction tape"; " a flea- bitten sofa"; " a run- down neighborhood"; " a woebegone old shack" [ synonym: { creaky}, { decrepit}, { derelict}, { flea- bitten}, { run- down}, { woebegone}] 2: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; " a feeble old woman"; " her body looked sapless" [ synonym: { decrepit}, { debile}, { feeble}, { infirm}, { rickety}, { sapless}, { weak}, { weakly}] Decrepit \ De* crep" it\, a. [ L. decrepitus, perhaps orig., noised out, noiseless, applied to old people, who creep about quietly; de- crepare to make a noise, rattle: cf. F. d[' e] cr[' e] pit. See { Crepitate}.] Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out. " Beggary or decrepit age." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Already decrepit with premature old age. -- Motley. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Sometimes incorrectly written decrepid. [ 1913 Webster] 109 Moby Thesaurus words for " decrepit": aged, ancient, anile, antiquated, battered, beat- up, beaten up, bedraggled, broken- down, cast- off, childish, childlike, crabbed, creaking, creaky, crippled, crumbling, damaged, debilitated, decayed, decaying, derelict, deteriorated, dilapidated, disabled, disintegrating, doddered, doddering, doddery, doited, doting, down- at- heel, elderly, enervated, enfeebled, feeble, flimsy, fossilized, fragile, frail, gaga, gerontal, gerontic, haggard, impaired, in ruins, incapacitated, infirm, injured, insubstantial, marred, mossbacked, moth- eaten, mummylike, old, out of shape, palsied, papery- skinned, poor, poorish, quavering, ragged, ramshackle, ravaged with age, rickety, rotten, rotten at, ruined, ruinous, run to seed, run- down, rusty, seedy, senescent, senile, shabby, shaking, shaky, shriveled, slipshod, sloppy, slummy, spoiled, stricken in years, superannuated, tacky, threadbare, timeworn, tired, tottering, tottery, tumbledown, unfirm, unfit, unkempt, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsturdy, unsubstantial, used, wasted, weak, weakened, weakly, withered, wizened, worn, worn out
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