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decrepitude

[ dih-krep-i-tood, -tyood ]

/ dɪˈkrɛp ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud /

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noun

decrepit condition; dilapidated state; feebleness, especially from old age.

RELATED WORDS

weakness, age, infirmity, dilapidation, decay

Nearby words

Origin of decrepitude

1595–1605; < French décrépitude, derivative of décrépit decrepit; see -tude

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for decrepitude

Face 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

Word Origin and History for decrepitude

decrepitude

n.

c.1600, from French décrépitude (14c.), from Latin decrepitus (see decrepit).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper