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
Noun
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As noted on the Alamo website, the site fell into disrepair until the U.S. Army took it over in the 1840s as a supply hub, only to be abandoned again with the building of a more permanent military garrison at Fort Sam Houston.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
6 Mar. 2025
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But the stone bridge has fallen into disrepair, with the Chicago Department of Transportation cordoning it off to pedestrian traffic in 2013.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Such insects accelerate microbial decay by grinding wood down to smaller bits, while also digesting some themselves.—
Katarina Zimmer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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Cats and dogs can detect odor and decay from long distances.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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 13 Mar. 2025.
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