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# decrepit

«decrepit» in Mova's school dictionary: **old, weak and worn out, often from age or hard use** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (decrepit, more decrepit, most decrepit)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Decrepit means old, weak and worn out, often from age or hard use. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decrepit/#m1)

2) Decrepit can describe a building that is falling apart from neglect. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decrepit/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a decrepit old man or a decrepit house is shabby and falling to bits; in lessons, something too weak or broken to work well

### examples

- The decrepit old fisherman could hardly walk to the shore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decrepit/#x1)
- The decrepit cottage had holes in its roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decrepit/#x2)
- The toy car was so decrepit that its wheels fell off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decrepit/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «decrepit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decrepit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.