| decrepit | | |
| adj. | 1. creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone | worn and broken down by hard use.; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack" |
| ~ worn | affected by wear; damaged by long use.; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket" |
| adj. | 2. debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly | lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality.; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" |
| ~ frail | physically weak.; "an invalid's frail body" |
| old | | |
| n. (time) | 1. old | past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old'). |
| ~ past, past times, yesteryear | the time that has elapsed.; "forget the past" |
| adj. | 2. old | (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age.; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?" |
| ~ experienced, experient | having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation. |
| ~ mature | having reached full natural growth or development.; "a mature cell" |
| ~ aged, elderly, older, senior | advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables).; "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen" |
| ~ of age, aged | having attained a specific age; (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable).; "aged ten"; "ten years of age" |
| ~ ageing, aging, senescent | growing old. |
| ~ ancient | very old.; "an ancient mariner" |
| ~ anile | of or like a feeble old woman. |
| ~ centenarian | being at least 100 years old. |
| ~ darkened | (of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time.; "the darkened margins of the paper" |
| ~ doddering, doddery, gaga, senile | mentally or physically infirm with age.; "his mother was doddering and frail" |
| ~ emeritus | honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus'. |
| ~ gray-haired, gray-headed, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired, gray, grey | showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair.; "whose beard with age is hoar"; "nodded his hoary head" |
| ~ middle-aged | being roughly between 45 and 65 years old. |
| ~ nonagenarian | being from 90 to 99 years old.; "the nonagenarian inhabitants of the nursing home" |
| ~ octogenarian | being from 80 to 89 years old. |
| ~ oldish | somewhat elderly. |
| ~ over-the-hill, overage, overaged, superannuated | too old to be useful.; "He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders" |
| ~ sexagenarian | being from 60 to 69 years old.; "the sexagenarian population is growing" |
| ~ venerable | impressive by reason of age.; "a venerable sage with white hair and beard" |
| ~ senior | older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service.; "senior officer" |
| adj. | 3. old | of long duration; not new.; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money" |
| ~ noncurrent | not current or belonging to the present time. |
| ~ stale | lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age.; "stale bread"; "the beer was stale" |
| ~ nonmodern | not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time. |
| ~ age-old, antique | belonging to or lasting from times long ago.; "age-old customs"; "the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness" |
| ~ antiquated, archaic, antediluvian | so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period.; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws" |
| ~ antique | made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age.; "the beautiful antique French furniture" |
| ~ auld | a Scottish word.; "auld lang syne" |
| ~ hand-down, hand-me-down | passed on from one person to another.; "not too proud to wear hand-me-down clothes" |
| ~ hoary, rusty | ancient.; "hoary jokes" |
| ~ immemorial | long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history.; "time immemorial" |
| ~ long-ago | belonging to time long gone.; "those long-ago dresses that swished along the floor" |
| ~ longtime | of long duration.; "a longtime friend" |
| ~ patched | mended usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch.; "patched jeans" |
| ~ secondhand, used | previously used or owned by another.; "bought a secondhand (or used) car" |
| ~ sunset | of a declining industry or technology.; "sunset industries" |
| ~ yellowed, yellow | changed to a yellowish color by age.; "yellowed parchment" |
| ~ past | earlier than the present time; no longer current.; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" |
| ~ worn | affected by wear; damaged by long use.; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket" |
| adj. | 4. old | (used for emphasis) very familiar.; "good old boy"; "same old story" |
| ~ familiar | well known or easily recognized.; "a familiar figure"; "familiar songs"; "familiar guests" |
| adj. | 5. old, older | skilled through long experience.; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers" |
| ~ experienced, experient | having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation. |
| adj. | 6. erstwhile, former, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime | belonging to some prior time.; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover" |
| ~ past | earlier than the present time; no longer current.; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" |
| adj. | 7. honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old, sure-enough | (used informally especially for emphasis).; "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel" |
| ~ echt, genuine | not fake or counterfeit.; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather" |
| adj. | 8. old | of a very early stage in development.; "Old English is also called Anglo Saxon"; "Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century" |
| ~ linguistics | the scientific study of language. |
| ~ early | of an early stage in the development of a language or literature.; "the Early Hebrew alphabetical script is that used mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries B.C."; "Early Modern English is represented in documents printed from 1476 to 1700" |
| adj. | 9. old, previous | just preceding something else in time or order.; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger" |
| ~ preceding | existing or coming before. |
| chase | | |
| n. (act) | 1. chase, following, pursual, pursuit | the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture.; "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit" |
| ~ movement, move, motion | the act of changing location from one place to another.; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path" |
| ~ tracking, trailing | the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind. |
| ~ shadowing, tailing | the act of following someone secretly. |
| ~ stalking, stalk | the act of following prey stealthily. |
| n. (person) | 2. chase, salmon p. chase, salmon portland chase | United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873). |
| ~ chief justice | the judge who presides over a supreme court. |
| ~ pol, political leader, politico, politician | a person active in party politics. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. chase | a rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time. |
| ~ frame | the framework for a pair of eyeglasses. |
| v. (motion) | 4. chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail | go after with the intent to catch.; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit" |
| ~ tree | chase an animal up a tree.; "the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it"; "her dog likes to tree squirrels" |
| ~ pursue, follow | follow in or as if in pursuit.; "The police car pursued the suspected attacker"; "Her bad deed followed her and haunted her dreams all her life" |
| ~ quest | search the trail of (game).; "The dog went off and quested" |
| ~ hound, hunt, trace | pursue or chase relentlessly.; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him" |
| ~ run down | pursue until captured.; "They ran down the fugitive" |
| v. (social) | 5. chase, chase after | pursue someone sexually or romantically. |
| ~ court, romance, solicit, woo | make amorous advances towards.; "John is courting Mary" |
| v. (contact) | 6. chase | cut a groove into.; "chase silver" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| v. (contact) | 7. chamfer, chase, furrow | cut a furrow into a columns. |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
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