as in disrepair
formal
the state of being old and in bad condition or poor health
The house has fallen into decrepitude. She was saddened by the decrepitude of many of the nursing home residents.
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Recent Examples of decrepitude
His advanced decrepitude will be matched only by the looming threat of irrelevance in a desensitized world.
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Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
Here and throughout his work, contradictions between vitality and decrepitude, nature and artifice, beauty and the grotesque don’t resolve in neutralizing harmony, but instead thrum on with generative friction.
—Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
How much of the aging process is an inevitable slide into decrepitude, and how much is a result of not getting enough exercise?
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2023
For years, the levee running along the Pajaro River had been neglected despite concerns about its decrepitude.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
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Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
Here and throughout his work, contradictions between vitality and decrepitude, nature and artifice, beauty and the grotesque don’t resolve in neutralizing harmony, but instead thrum on with generative friction.
—Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
How much of the aging process is an inevitable slide into decrepitude, and how much is a result of not getting enough exercise?
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2023
For years, the levee running along the Pajaro River had been neglected despite concerns about its decrepitude.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
See all Example Sentences for decrepitude
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decrepitude
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The sign was donated to Los Angeles in 1944, according to the Hollywood Sign Trust, but later fell into disrepair before being restored in the late 1970s.Ty Roush, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
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City Council President Zeke Cohen called upon the city to break its habit of allowing residential buildings to fall into disrepair in the first place.Carson Swick, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2025
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These economies are much more vulnerable to existential economic and environmental shocks and downward spirals of community decay than urban economies, which have built up more diversified tradable income sources over time.Tim Freeman, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
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Summary Dental fillings help maintain the structure and function of natural teeth damaged by tooth decay.Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 10 Jan. 2025
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The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2024
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According to this view, the outside world has been generous to Africa, providing substantial aid in recent decades, leaving no excuse for the continent’s debility.Howard W. French, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
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“Decrepitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decrepitude. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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