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Meaning of decrepit

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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