A state of deterioration due to old age or long use.

synonym: dilapidation.

Roget 659: deterioration, debasement; wane, ebb; recession etc. 287; retrogradation etc. 283^†; decrease etc. 36.    degeneracy, degeneration, degenerateness; degradation; depravation, depravement; devolution; depravity etc. 945; demoralization, retrogression; masochism.    impairment, inquination^†, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration^†, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath^†; perversion, prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation, pollution, defoedation^†, poisoning, venenation^†, leaven, contamination, canker, corruption, adulteration, alloy.    decline, declension, declination; decadence, decadency^†; falling off etc. v.; caducity^†, decrepitude.    decay, dilapidation, ravages of time, wear and tear; corrosion, erosion; moldiness, rottenness; moth and rust, dry rot, blight, marasmus^†, atrophy, collapse; disorganization; delabrement etc. (destruction). 162; aphid, Aphis, plant louse, puceron^†; vinefretter^†, vinegrub^†.    wreck, mere wreck, honeycomb, magni nominis umbra [Lat.]; jade, plug, rackabones [U.S.], skate [U.S.]; tackey^†, tacky [U.S.].    ... show more

Roget 128: age; oldness^† etc. adj.; old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility^†, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity^†, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, sear and yellow leaf" [Macbeth]; threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life.    seniority, eldership; elders etc. (veteran) 130; firstling; doyen, father; primogeniture.    [Science of old age.] geriatrics, nostology^†.    ... show more

Roget 160: weakness etc. adj.; debility, atony^†, relaxation, languor, enervation; impotence etc. 158; infirmity; effeminacy, feminality^†; fragility, flaccidity; inactivity etc. 683.    anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood.    declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength; delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia^†, adynamy^†, cachexy^†, cachexia [Med.], sprain, strain.    reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards.    softling^†, weakling; infant etc. 129; youth etc. 127.    ... show more

Dutch: gebrekkigheid
Polish: strupieszałość