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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Trembling, tottering, or exhibiting mental impairment associated with aging.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective shaking as from old age.
  • adjective mentally or physically infirm with age.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile
  • verb Present participle of dodder.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective mentally or physically infirm with age

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