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infirmity

/in-fur-mi-tee/US // ɪnˈfɜr mɪ ti //UK // (ɪnˈfɜːmɪtɪ) //

体弱多病,体弱,虚弱的身体,虚弱

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural in·fir·mi·ties for 1, 3.

    • : a physical weakness or ailment: the infirmities of age.
    • : quality or state of being infirm; lack of strength.
    • : a moral weakness or failing.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounweakness, sickness

Examples

  • Page asked each candidate whether they had discussed the issue of age and infirmity with the presidential standard-bearers.

  • Alma Hitchcock, the times I saw her, was a frail, birdlike woman who looked angry about her infirmity.

  • The state law bars giving gun permits to people with a “physical infirmity that inhibits safe handling.”

  • Whether infirmity or utter lack of enthusiasm is the reason remains unclear.

  • Medical infirmity, a standard clause in most contracts like this, might have provided him a consequence-free out.

  • There remain still the uncounted thousands who by accident or illness, age or infirmity, are unable to maintain themselves.

  • If he declines, or shews the least infirmity of purpose, he will be drugged and taken home that way.

  • Robin the gardener brought up the rear, his body all shaking with his infirmity, and showing the divine stigmata on his hands.

  • Peter was not lame; but his father, by reason of that infirmity had received the nick-name which his son preserved.

  • Woman's prescriptive infirmity had stalked into the sunlight, which had clothed it in the freshness of an originality.