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decrepitude

[ UK /dɪkɹˈɛpɪtjˌuːd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a state of deterioration due to old age or long use

How To Use decrepitude In A Sentence

  • As once observed, the problem is ‘not illness but decrepitude.’
  • Meanwhile, the country – the Paris magazine describes it scrupulously as Grande Bretagne, though Amis is happier with Angleterre – is infused with "moral decrepitude". Cursing one's homeland before fleeing overseas, Martin Amis, is a cliche
  • Even so, shortly after the funeral she began to forget Reeves's final decrepitude and to cherish earlier memories. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • The bothering and begging are exhaustive and unremitting, and the beggars world-beating in their decrepitude and infirmity.
  • That was when I would begin my long slide into senility and decrepitude and start wearing different-coloured socks.
  • Many people in their 40s and 50s are in their prime, yet some employers seem to consider them on the slippery slope to decrepitude.
  • Traditional Chinese Medicine has abundant clinical experience and form theoretical system to postpone decrepitude, it emphasize that spleen is the root of after-birth and the source of qi and blood.
  • I don't dislike the decrepitude of my body - in fact, I respect it, because it's served me well.
  • Now this King was become a very old man, weakened and wasted with age and sickness and decrepitude; for he had lived an hundred and fourscore years and had no child, male or female, by reason whereof he was ever in cark and care from morning to night and from night to morn. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • We wanted other people to be polite and ignore our decrepitude.
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