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decrepitude

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11 lettersPronunciation /dɪˈkɹɛpɪtʃuːd/Part of speech nounSorted cddeeeiprtuStarts with DEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a state of deterioration due to old age or long use

Word origin

From Middle French décrépitude, from Old French, from Latin dēcrepitūdō (“decrepitude”).

Used in a sentence

  • There prevailed in his time an opinion, that the world was in its decay, and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of nature.
  • Being a trifle precipitate in his entry, he trod on a bottle, and was instantly extinguished by a Japanese screen, which appeared to collapse on him out of pure decrepitude.
  • We were encircled by a ghostly decrepitude, roads that led to nowhere, canals holding pools of brilliant, stinking water, a few nat-haunted banyan trees, grotesque with old muscled trunks and bearded roots.

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