Crossword-Solution: DECREPITUDE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Decrepitude | n. | The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “DECREPITUDE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Worn-out condition. | 1 answer |
| the state of being decrepit | 1 answer |
| unhealthiness | 7 answers |
| A STATE OF DETERIORATION DUE TO OLD AGE OR LONG USE | 11 answers |
| Feebleness | 14 answers |
| infirmity | 35 answers |
| Debility | 57 answers |
| disease | 67 answers |
| Weakness | 80 answers |
| Inability | 84 answers |
| Decline | 107 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
GAATE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with DECREPITUDE (5)
Won't you come in and have a chair?” There were no signs of decrepitude about her, and she had a cheery old eye.
The most singular effect of their gayety was an impulse to mock the infirmity and decrepitude of which they had so lately been the victims.
Old age is not venerable when it embodies itself in lilacs, rose-bushes, or any other ornamental shrub; it seems as if such plants, as they grow only for beauty, ought to flourish always in immortal youth, or, at least, to die before their sad decrepitude.
And seen at this hour, before placing himself in his valet’s hands, before his premature decrepitude had been concealed by the artifices of the toilet, he was really frightful.
Now I, who labour under so great decrepitude, can see how bad my fate would be, if I betook myself to what proved so unfortunate for him; with so great a difference as there is between our activity, health, and strength.
Quotes with DECREPITUDE (3)
You will try to improve me, Captain, but I tell you it cannot be done. I am resigned to moral apathy and corporeal decrepitude, and have done with projections. No, Captain,” with a pining sigh, “I think I will simply sit in the shade and wait for either a customer or death, the latter I might prefer, at such a point.
It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by singing about it, interpreting it, by admiring it as a poet, idealizing it as an artist and by explaining it through science, doubtless making mistakes, but finding ingenious reasons, hidden grace and beauty, unknown charm and mystery in the various phenomena of Nature. God created only coarse beings, full of the germs of disease, who, after a few years of bestial enjoyment, grow o…
As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been approached in a strictly scientific fashion--that is to say, objectively, amorally, intellectually. All those who have written on the subject are filled with prejudice. Before searching out and examining the mechanism of causes of disease, they treat of 'disease as such', condemn it as an exceptional and harmful condition, and start out by detailing the thousand an…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1945).