out of condition
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Still tired and out of condition from their long months of confinement and their voyages, the men found the hiking a strain.
From Literature
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It was sort of beat-up and out of condition.
From The New Yorker
One, although reduced in flesh, and thrown out of condition, was fit for work in a week, but the other only just escaped with his life, becoming a perfect skeleton, and only commencing to mend at the end of three months.
From Nature
Already he was out of condition, puffy.
From Literature
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However, soybeans take bin space in preference to corn, which is less likely to go out of condition.
From Washington Times
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