Thesaurus / decrepitude
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This organized process of decrepitude was still largely an enigma in 1993, when biologist Cynthia Kenyon, then at UCSF, discovered that mutating just one gene in a roundworm doubled its lifespan.
HAS THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEEN IN OUR BLOOD ALL ALONG?KAT MCGOWANSEPTEMBER 28, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCESo they are spared the anguish of slow, uncomprehending decrepitude.
THE WATCHERS OF THE TRAILSCHARLES G. D. ROBERTSIt stretched out its boughs to the sea and its branches to the river, and it was the ancient trunk that gave signs of decrepitude.
THE STONES OF VENICE, VOLUME III (OF 3)JOHN RUSKINYour noble tower must need no help, must be sustained by no crutches, must give place to no suspicion of decrepitude.
THE STONES OF VENICE, VOLUME I (OF 3)JOHN RUSKINBut ileuede is not used elsewhere in L, and would connote decrepitude.
SELECTIONS FROM EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH 1130-1250: PART II: NOTESVARIOUSIt seemed to be a child, for it had but childhood's growth; yet the body had the clumsy decrepitude of old age.
A GERMAN POMPADOURMARIE HAYThey despised the military decrepitude of the superannuated city; her recollections they hated.
HISTORY OF THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPE, VOLUME I (OF 2)JOHN WILLIAM DRAPERA debauched old degenerate marrying the daughter of his mistress because her eighteen years attracts his vicious decrepitude.
ROBINFRANCES HODGSON BURNETTAt their loss or disappearance occasioned by decrepitude or death, ariseth what is called distress.
MAHABHARATA OF KRISHNA-DWAIPAYANA VYASA BK. 3 PT. 1KRISHNA-DWAIPAYANA VYASAIn no other respects, bodily or mental, did he exhibit signs of decrepitude.
THE BEST OF THE WORLD'S CLASSICS, RESTRICTED TO PROSE, VOL. X (OF X) - AMERICA - II, INDEXVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO DECREPITUDE
- aches
- affections
- attacks
- blight
- breakdowns
- bugs
- cancers
- cankers
- collapses
- complaints
- conditions
- contagions
- contaminations
- convulsions
- debilities
- decrepitude
- defects
- disorders
- distemper
- endemics
- epidemics
- feebleness
- fevers
- fits
- flu
- hemorrhages
- ill healths
- illnesses
- indispositions
- infections
- infirmities
- inflammations
- maladies
- miseries
- pathoses
- plagues
- seizures
- sicklinesses
- sicknesses
- spells
- strokes
- syndromes
- temperatures
- unhealthinesses
- unsoundnesses
- upsets
- viruses
- visitations
- affliction
- ailing
- ailment
- confinement
- debilitation
- debility
- decay
- decrepitude
- defect
- deficiency
- delicacy
- delicateness
- disease
- diseasedness
- disorder
- failing
- fault
- feebleness
- flimsiness
- flu
- fragileness
- fragility
- frailness
- frailty
- ill health
- imperfection
- indisposition
- malady
- malaise
- puniness
- shortcoming
- sickliness
- unhealth
- unhealthiness
- unsoundness
- unsubstantiality
- unwellness
- vulnerability
- weakliness
- weakness
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