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Adjective: decrepit  di'kre-pit
  1. Worn and broken down by hard use
    "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape";
    - creaky, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone
     
  2. Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
    "a decrepit old woman";
    - debile [archaic], feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly

See also: frail, worn

Encyclopedia: Decrepit