Translation of decrepit – English–Thai dictionary

decrepit

 
adjective
  /diˈkrepit/
●
(of a person or a thing) old and no longer in good health or condition
แก่; เสื่อมสภาพ
a decrepit old man
a decrepit building.

(Translation of decrepit from the PASSWORD English–Thai Dictionary © 2015 K Dictionaries Ltd)

Examples of decrepit

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I believe that suffering must inevitably occur, quite apart from anything else, in sending these decrepit horses across the sea.
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Everybody knows the limitation in raising manpower for the industry and everybody knows that the mines are like the miners, getting old and decrepit.
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Another landlord in my constituency refuses to carry out repairs to a decrepit house inhabited by a bed-ridden old lady of 90.
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There we saw a decrepit old house with 130 women and children in the most abysmal and appalling conditions.
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Football stadiums are decrepit and prone to violence.
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The old and decrepit constituted the majority of people living in hospitals.
Overcrowded cells, decrepit and unhygienic conditions and barren regimes are the every-day experience in many of our gaols.
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It has never been our policy that we should take over the decrepit and dying industries.
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Translations of decrepit

in Chinese (Traditional)
破舊的,年久失修的, 破爛不堪的, 老朽的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
破旧的,年久失修的, 破烂不堪的, 老朽的…
in Spanish
destartalado, decrépito, Decrepito…
in Portuguese
decrépito…
in more languages
in Turkish
in French
in Dutch
in Czech
in Danish
in Indonesian
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Swedish
in Malay
in German
in Norwegian
in Ukrainian
harap, yıpranmış, çökmüş…
délabré…
afgeleefd, vervallen…
sešlý, zchátralý…
affældig, faldefærdig…
renta, tua sekali…
già yếu, hư nát…
walący się, zgrzybiały, rozpadający się…
skröplig, orkeslös…
uzur…
altersschwach, baufällig…
dekrepitt…
старезний, зношений…
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