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Decrepit

Decrepit | Decrepitude

Decrepit meaning

Weakened or worn out from age or wear.

Example sentences (20)

As Mann was led away by a prison officer to her decrepit cell, she cried: 'I really don't know what more to say or what to do.

At first glance, the decrepit building in Dillon, Sask., doesn’t look much like a working RCMP detachment.

Here at LSU, several presidents and most of the faculty have long yearned to replace our decrepit, leaking and crumbling 65-year-old library.

Mike would rather not work the night shift at a decrepit “Chuck E. Cheese”-type entertainment center, as he tells the friendly but mysterious cop Vanessa (Elizabeth Lail).

On what grounds are pre-trial January 8 Riot suspects being held in the decrepit DC federal lockup without bail on rinky-dink charges two years after the event?

Saxena also visited King Prithviraj Chauhan's Qila Rai Pithora and expressed "grave disappointment at its decrepit state due to neglect by authorities", they said.

Turning the tide is going to take rehabilitating many formerly trusted but decrepit institutions, including religion, marriage, and medicine.

Unfortunately for them, the decrepit house is the residence of a family of deranged backwoods killers who begin to hunt the strander group one by one.

According to observations, Republicans are constantly trying to create an image of the 81-year-old President Joe Biden as an old and decrepit old man.

He was also the only member of the Fenshawe clan who appeared to have an entirely unproblematic relationship with its now seriously decrepit alpha male.

He was even busted for being a slumlord owning decrepit apartments.

Not only is this decrepit old man barbaric, he also is clueless about running a business.

The decrepit property was captured in a photo series by photographer Richard Lewis.

The haunted house being a decrepit cliché at this point, the new horror film “Night Swim” moves the action to the backyard and supplies something it hopes will make more of a splash: the haunted swimming pool.

The struggle for trade and a reliance on regulars, as well as theories on the decrepit state of the building, were common themes among the traders I spoke to.

Well, as spicy as it could be between two decrepit old men we already had to choose between four years ago.

A cricket team can ravage a ball all it likes, but if its swing bowlers cannot pull off their tricks, all the team is left with is a prematurely old and decrepit ball and a long, fruitless time in the field.

Among other disincentives, infrastructure is decrepit, at less than 5,000 megawatts, electricity is virtually epileptic and security has deteriorated rapidly.

He quickly tucked his head back behind as a wave of bullets streamed past, slamming into the decrepit husk of a car.

Mr. Lida, 60, and the author of “First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, Capital of the 21st Century,” arrived early at our hotel in the Roma neighborhood, and we took an Uber to a narrow, decrepit street in the historic center of the city.