decrepitude

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They asked: "How do we ethically justify forcing these bodies to continue to exist in decrepitude?"

From BBC • May 13, 2025

Not many contemporary actors could summon to the stage Gardner’s radiance and decrepitude simultaneously.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2023

Many famous defendants have aimed for respectability, maturity, wide-eyed innocence or even pitiful decrepitude on their days in court.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2023

On Tuesday, one of the main buildings on the property was demolished, after a devastating fire delivered the killing blow following decades of decrepitude and abandonment.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2022

Even in her later years, when she could no longer get out of bed, it seemed that she was simply defeated by decrepitude, but no one discovered that she was blind.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez