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单词 decrepit
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decrepit
However, farmers now rely less on these machines, which are now old anddecrepit, than they did in the recent past.
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They described themselves in their own words as capable and incapable, able and unable, beautiful anddecrepit, funny and feeble.
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That which isdecrepitis to be repaired, that which is decayed is to be replaced.
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This might have become necessary because a disproportionate number of unmarried males were lame, blind, ordecrepit.
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Elderly men retained the primary responsibility for their own upkeep until they were absolutelydecrepit.
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The old anddecrepitconstituted the majority of people living in hospitals.
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It seemed impossible that modern thought could house itself in suchdecrepitand superseded chambers.
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This law stated that ' the aged anddecrepit' of every parish were to be supported by a tax, collected from all those who held property in the parish.
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At this stage old anddecrepitpeople are in a better position than the young, because old people can better withstand the temptations that accompany conversion.
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There we saw adecrepitold house with 130 women and children in the most abysmal and appalling conditions.
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I believe that suffering must inevitably occur, quite apart from anything else, in sending thesedecrepithorses across the sea.
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Does he really believe that it has becomedecrepitin two years?
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Everybody knows the limitation in raising manpower for the industry and everybody knows that the mines are like the miners, getting old anddecrepit.
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It has never been our policy that we should take over thedecrepitand dying industries.
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Another landlord in my constituency refuses to carry out repairs to adecrepithouse inhabited by a bed-ridden old lady of 90.
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