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decrepitude

/dih-krep-i-tood, -tyood/US // dɪˈkrɛp ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud //

颓废,衰弱,腐朽性,衰退

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : decrepit condition; dilapidated state; feebleness, especially from old age.

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Examples

  • Face it, we like our blues singers to show some signs of decrepitude.

  • Many of the scenes deal with the grim obsessions of old age: sexual futility, corporeal decrepitude, and death.

  • Another helpful feature on the site is a glossary of terms that delineate the various stages of mall decrepitude.

  • So they are spared the anguish of slow, uncomprehending decrepitude.

  • It stretched out its boughs to the sea and its branches to the river, and it was the ancient trunk that gave signs of decrepitude.

  • Your noble tower must need no help, must be sustained by no crutches, must give place to no suspicion of decrepitude.

  • But ileuede is not used elsewhere in L, and would connote decrepitude.

  • It seemed to be a child, for it had but childhood's growth; yet the body had the clumsy decrepitude of old age.