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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DECREPIT, a. [L. to break.] Broken down with age; wasted or worn by the infirmities of old age; being in the last stage of decay; weakened by age.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin decrepitus Date: 15th century 1. wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age 2. a. impaired by use or wear ; worn-out b. fallen into ruin or disrepair 3. dilapidated, run-down Synonyms: see weak • decrepitly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 weakened or worn out by age and infirmity. 2 worn out by long use; dilapidated. Derivatives: decrepitude n. Etymology: ME f. L decrepitus (as DE-, crepitus past part. of crepare creak)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Already decrepit with premature old age. --Motley. Note: Sometimes incorrectly written decrepid.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is decrepit is old and in bad condition. Someone who is decrepit is old and weak. The film had been shot in a decrepit old police station. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Superannuated, effete, shattered, worn or broken down with age, infirm through age.

Moby Thesaurus

aged, ancient, anile, antiquated, battered, beat-up, beaten up, bedraggled, broken-down, cast-off, childish, childlike, crabbed, creaking, creaky, crippled, crumbling, damaged, debilitated, decayed, decaying, derelict, deteriorated, dilapidated, disabled, disintegrating, doddered, doddering, doddery, doited, doting, down-at-heel, elderly, enervated, enfeebled, feeble, flimsy, fossilized, fragile, frail, gaga, gerontal, gerontic, haggard, impaired, in ruins, incapacitated, infirm, injured, insubstantial, marred, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, old, out of shape, palsied, papery-skinned, poor, poorish, quavering, ragged, ramshackle, ravaged with age, rickety, rotten, rotten at, ruined, ruinous, run to seed, run-down, rusty, seedy, senescent, senile, shabby, shaking, shaky, shriveled, slipshod, sloppy, slummy, spoiled, stricken in years, superannuated, tacky, threadbare, timeworn, tired, tottering, tottery, tumbledown, unfirm, unfit, unkempt, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsturdy, unsubstantial, used, wasted, weak, weakened, weakly, withered, wizened, worn, worn out