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doddering collapse: mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail"

fossilized collapse: set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"

palsied collapse: affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor; "palsied hands"

decrepit collapse: lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"

shriveled collapse: reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power"; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

rickety collapse: inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky"; affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets; "rickety limbs and joints"; "a rachitic patient"

tottering collapse: (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse; "a tottering empire"; unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a tottering skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man"

rusty collapse: covered with or consisting of rust; "a rusty machine"; "rusty deposits"

infirm collapse: lacking firmness of will or character or purpose; "infirm of purpose; give me the daggers" - Shakespeare

shaky collapse: vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands"

feeble collapse: lacking strength; "a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne; pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"

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