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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The quality or condition of being weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The state of being broken down by infirmities, physical or mental, especially infirmities of age.

Wiktionary

  1. n. the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a state of deterioration due to old age or long use

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