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decrepitudes

decrepitudes is the plural of decrepitude.

Meaning of decrepitude

Noun

decrepitude (countable and uncountable, plural decrepitudes)

  1. The state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use.
    • There prevailed in his time an opinion, that the world was in its decay, and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of nature.1781, Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets

Questions about decrepitudes

What is decrepitudes the plural of?
Decrepitudes is the plural of decrepitude.

Words near decrepitudes in the dictionary

  1. decrepitation
  2. decrepitations
  3. decrepitly
  4. decrepitness
  5. decrepitude
  6. decrepitudes
  7. decrepity
  8. decresc
  9. decresc.
  10. decrescence
  11. decrescendi

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