decrepit
the inevitable decline towards decrepitude and death
The cathedral was falling into decrepitude.
He has a fear of ageing, decrepitude and decay.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

In bad condition
battered
battle-scarred
be on the skidsidiom
beat someone up
blasted
hors de combat
impaired
in decay
in good, bad, etc. repairidiom
in piecesidiom
run someone/something down
sad
scarred
scuffed
shabbily
the worse for wearidiom
well worn
worm-eaten
worn out
worse

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Examples of decrepitude

decrepitude
The ' look of age ' is most obviously the body weathered by decrepitude.
First, it is seen as a disease that features decrepitude.
The bodily conditions of two other recent deaths are noted, but there is no institutional inducement for the elaboration of contrasting decrepitude.
Proceeding northwards, the author passed through many towns and villages, most of which were in a depressing state of decrepitude.
The idea of the ' continuum of care ', for example, is a paradigm of decrepitude and caregiving that links conceptually the institution at one end with home care at the other.
Certainly a good and healthy old age was regarded as the reward of virtue but, on the other hand, there were also words for decrepitude, dependence and destitution.
It has had an interesting, romantic past, but all the paint in the world cannot camouflage its decrepitude.
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