英：[dɪˈkrepɪt]
美：[dɪˈkrɛpɪt]
decrepit如何读
decrepit是什么意思
adj.
衰老的，老朽的，破旧的
头童齿豁
衰朽
蓬头历齿
decrepit自然拼读
de·crep·it
dih kre piht
decrepit扩展
decrepitly (adv.)
decrepit词根
词根：decrepit
n.decrepitude 衰老，老朽
decrepit英英释义
Adjective
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"
2. lacking physical strength or vitality;
"a feeble old woman"
"her body looked sapless"
decrepit词源中文解释
"身体状况恶化，衰弱，尤指因年老而衰弱"，15世纪中叶，源自古法语 decrepit（15世纪，现代法语 décrépit），源自拉丁语 decrepitus "非常老，虚弱"（用于老人和老动物），源自 de "向下"（见 de-) + *crepitus, 过去分词形式 crepare "发出爆裂声，破裂"（见 raven）。拉丁语单词的字面意义不确定。相关词汇： Decrepitly。
decrepit词源英文解释
Middle English, from Latin decrepitus
The first known use of decrepit was in the 15th century
decrepit儿童词典英英释义
dedicationnoun
an act or rite of dedicating to a divine being or to a sacred use
a setting aside for a particular purpose
the inscription dedicating a literary, musical, or artistic work to a person or cause
self-sacrificing devotion
dedicateverb
to set apart for some purpose and especially a sacred or serious purpose
to address or inscribe as a compliment
dedicated her book to her mother
dedicationnoun
an act or rite of dedicating to a divine being or to a sacred use
a setting aside for a particular purpose
the inscription dedicating a literary, musical, or artistic work to a person or cause
self-sacrificing devotion
dedicateverb
to set apart for some purpose and especially a sacred or serious purpose
to address or inscribe as a compliment
dedicated her book to her mother
decryverb
to express disrespect and scorn for : belittle
decry a hero's deeds
to find fault with : condemn
decried the waste of resources
decrescendo1 of 2noun
a lessening in volume of sound
decrescendo2 of 2adverb or adjective
with diminishing volume—used as a direction in music
decrepitudenoun
the quality or state of being decrepit : loss of strength or sturdiness especially from old age
decrepitadjective
broken down with age : worn-out
decrepit 例句
1 A decrepit old man sat on a park bench.
一个衰弱的老人坐在公园的长凳上。
2 Culebrita Lighthouse, one of the Caribbean’s oldest, crowns its top in decrepit glory.
3 The journey is supposed to take fifty-four minutes, but it rarely does: this section of the track is ancient, decrepit, beset with signalling problems and never-ending engineering works.
4 Pretending not to hear, Amarante hurried as fast as his bowed and decrepit legs would carry him toward home, scattering a slew of yellow and red grasshoppers in his wake.
5 To complete the picture, she surrounds herself with clutter that suggests the Addams family's attic – a recent showcase featured a birdcage, a tea set and a decrepit garden swing.
6 A weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.
7 He nodded at her and sat, looking around with distaste at the decrepit bar.
他朝她点点头，坐下，厌恶地环顾了破旧的酒吧。
8 In 1951, one of the school’s decrepit school buses crashed, killing five students.
9 Developers also paid for a new 20,000-square-foot public park, to replace a decrepit concrete one that had been on Second Avenue in what’s effectively the school’s front yard.
10 A few weeks ago I wrote about getting a solicitation from the AARP, a fine organization that makes you feel ancient and decrepit every time you hear from them.
11 An enterprising person is one who drives through an decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development.
一个有进取的人能够在驾车经过一片老城区时，看到一个新的房地产开发项目。
12 The decrepit imperial government was ready for the ash heap of history before its decision in 1914 to enter the war against Germany and Austria-Hungary along with their Ottoman allies.
13 At the head of Miller Bay, beyond the mud flats, lived Captain Jonathan Soderland, who’d plied his decrepit windjammer, the C. S. Murphy, to the Arctic each year on trading expeditions.
14 Kevin Smith, at a decrepit 41, announced his intention to call it quits in 2011, saying he was out of stories.
15 This is Spain in the final, decrepit years of the Franco regime, when the last vestiges of the old order still cling on.
16 Their prison hospital X-ray machines were in a decrepit state, and there was a chronic shortage of even first-line antibiotics.
17 Only when she mounts the stage and they ask for volunteers, all you can hear is the wind whistling through the decrepit buildings around her.
18 The wall of faded paper took a beating as the wind blew through the fences, ripping some of the more decrepit sheets free and making others flutter like hummingbird wings.
19 The decrepit lawyers dressed in black who during other times had besieged Colonel Aureliano Buendía and who now were controlled by the banana company dismissed those demands with decisions that seemed like acts of magic.
20 Ersatz buildings, decrepit interiors and blighted streets tally the costs of urban sprawl while conveying unexpected frissons of color, texture and shape; signs and graffiti provide all kinds of commentary.
decrepit 同义词
1 衰老
senile senescent decrepitude effete aging dotage dote bedridden bewhiskered epicene fade senescence old geriatric grey dodder anile consenescence consenescency senility anility decline impotent gerontic doited fading impotence caducity come apart at the seams ageing age
2 衰老的
senile senescent old geriatric raddled gerontic effete bedridden bewhiskered epicene grey dodder anile impotent doited
3 老朽的
geriatric senile gaga superannuated ageing creaky overage senescent timeworn doddered doited decrepitude
6 虚弱
limp-wristed low weak shaky rundown feeble wobbly prostrate banal puny rickety infirm weedy bloodless effete peaky namby-pamby asthenic impuissant asthenia weakness frailty debility debilitate emaciate enfeeble
8 毁坏的
9 虚弱的
limp-wristed low weak shaky rundown feeble wobbly prostrate banal puny rickety infirm weedy bloodless effete peaky namby-pamby asthenic impuissant
11 消瘦的
12 衰弱
low broken slim slack rundown weakly flabby flaccid languid flagging feckless unstrung failure collapse weakness debility asthenia marasmus break die fail waste sink fade faint jade wane wear debilitate enervate
13 老朽
gaga buffer decrepitude ageing creaky long in the tooth overage antediluvian senescent superannuated timeworn doddered doited dotingly senescence
16 步履蹒跚的
17 坍塌的
18 老弱的
19 荒废
waste abandoned rusty run-down wasting wasteness desolation disrepair ruination decrepitude dilapidate rust go to rack
20 老弱
21 破旧的
mean tacky ragged derelict seedy well-worn ratty threadbare mangy moth-eaten tired worn geriatric wretched dilapidated scruffy unsound worn-out crummy beat-up scrubby broken-down beaten-up clapped-out flea-bitten old beaten tatty ricky-tick shabby shoddy grotty unwearable worm-eaten shot raddle clapped out tattered run-down creaky the worse for wear well worn moldy mouldy battered fleabitten conked-out poor aged rusty sleazy raunchy dog-eared bedraggled rattletrap scrubbed raddled crocky clapped poky rinky-dink klunky tattery
22 毁坏
derelict dilapidated ruinous crash sack massacre breakage ravage ruination per- dilapidate queer destroy injure poison flaw undo mar devastate butcher demolish havoc sabotage bugger euchre deflower vulgarize unbuild asperse eat cook waste ruin blast lay waste to waste
23 年久失修的
27 磨损
abrasion attrition detrition abrade frazzle outwear wear rub fret erode fray fag out at elbows wear off
28 破旧
mean tacky ragged derelict seedy well-worn ratty threadbare mangy moth-eaten decrepitude tired worn geriatric wretched dilapidated scruffy unsound worn-out crummy beat-up scrubby broken-down beaten-up clapped-out flea-bitten dilapidation seediness scruffiness old beaten tatty ricky-tick far gone shabby shoddy grotty unwearable worm-eaten shot raddle clapped out tattered run-down creaky the worse for wear well worn moldy mouldy age battered fleabitten conked-out poor aged rusty sleazy raunchy dog-eared bedraggled rattletrap scrubbed raddled crocky raunch clapped poky rinky-dink klunky tattery shabbiness
29 衰败的