Decrepit Definition

dĭ-krĕpĭt
adjective
Broken down or worn out by old age, illness, or long use.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Decrepit

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin dēcrepitus worn out, feeble dē- de- crepitus past participle of crepāre to burst, crack

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French décrépit, from Latin decrepitus (“very old”), from crepare (“to creak”).

    From Wiktionary

Decrepit Sentence Examples

  • She opened her eyes and looked around, not recognizing the decrepit factory.

  • The provincial schools, dependent upon so decrepit an alma mater, were suffered to decay.

  • After a year's service in Congress in 1782-1783, in which he experienced the futility of endeavouring to attain through that decrepit body the ends he sought, he settled down to legal practice in New York.

  • A thin, somewhat decrepit man slowly edged in.

  • Edward, though only in his fifty-seventh year, was entering into a premature and decrepit old age, in which he became the prey of unworthy favorites, male and female.

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Words Starting With

DDEDEC

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TITPIT

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Words Starting With D and Ending With T

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