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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
decrepit
    adj 1: worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a
           decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction
           tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood";
           "a woebegone old shack" [syn: creaky, decrepit,
           derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone]
    2: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble
       old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn: decrepit,
       debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak,
       weakly]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Decrepit \De*crep"it\, a. [L. decrepitus, perhaps orig., noised
   out, noiseless, applied to old people, who creep about
   quietly; de- + crepare to make a noise, rattle: cf. F.
   d['e]cr['e]pit. See Crepitate.]
   Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities
   of old age; feeble; worn out. "Beggary or decrepit age."
   --Milton.
   [1913 Webster]

         Already decrepit with premature old age. --Motley.
   [1913 Webster]

   Note: Sometimes incorrectly written decrepid.
         [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for decrepit:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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