| 单词 | decrepit |
| 释义 | decrepit (once / 3638 pages) adj That building falling down on the corner of your block? It's decrepit. So is the old man who lives there, if he is weak from age. Decrepit means broken down by hard use. Decrepit implies that something or someone is a weak, and run down — practically falling apart. It's really not a nice word to use about a person. If you are trying to say the same thing about a person, but more nicely, you might use the word, feeble, which means weak, but not disastrously falling apart. WORD FAMILYdecrepit: decrepitly USAGE EXAMPLESHe founded a church, and with the small congregation renovated a decrepit 43-unit apartment building on Belmont Street NW. Washington Post(Dec 10, 2016) Oil shipments from China are critical to keep the decrepit North Korean economy functioning. Wall Street Journal(Dec 01, 2016) He’ll have to make politically fraught decisions about a U.S. nuclear arsenal that in some ways has become decrepit. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) 1adj worn and broken down by hard use a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape Syn creaky, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone worn affected by wear; damaged by long use 2adj lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality Syn debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly frail physically weak |
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