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Meanings of infirmity in English
The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
Synonyms
Examples for "vulnerability"
Examples for "vulnerability"
1
Men who are truly powerful, however, view threats as yet another vulnerability.
2
I marked this as yet another possible vulnerability in the prosecutor's case.
3
Mobility and alcohol abuse increase vulnerability to HIV among itinerants in Zambia.
4
And under those circumstances, pod vulnerability became a very serious concern, indeed.
5
Therefore, the way an individual copes with stress may affect AN vulnerability.
1
He then began to watch for signs of decrepitude in the General.
2
Even the infirmities and the decrepitude that afflicted could not deliver him.
3
Evidently he hadn't recognized her through the increased decrepitude of her illness.
4
Like the house, it exhibited an odd blend of incompletion and decrepitude.
5
Old age today brings to mind a picture of decrepitude and decay.
1
Now there is the additional factor of economic debilitation by the coronavirus.
2
Alexandria still lay in its stupor of heat and debilitation, barely moving.
3
Does not your debilitation speak of a flaw in this thinking?
4
Mr. Bryan denied that newspaper mergers were a sign of debilitation in the industry.
5
Easily Fatigued Similar to depression, this fatigue can be debilitation.
Usage of infirmity in English
1
But physical infirmity and a collapsing economy mean his grip is weakening.
2
The slaughter now became general, and neither age nor infirmity was spared.
3
Of confession of our infirmity and of the miseries of this life
4
It was the inevitable tragedy, this, of their sexes and her infirmity.
5
And then our Lord relieves the blind man of the infirmity itself.
6
Penelope's infirmity provided an excuse but an excuse was all it was.
7
She keenly felt the sadness and danger consequent on this cruel infirmity.
8
To bear with the infirmity of a brother is a good thing.
9
At the mention of her infirmity a cloud covered her young face.
10
But the working of miracles belongs to power rather than to infirmity.
11
Wetting the bed is an infirmity with some children-theycannot help it.
12
I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh.
13
N infirmity becomes doubly burdensome when we give it a false interpretation.
14
The claim dies from the moment that your daughter's infirmity is removed.
15
I love you, but I cannot be your wife with my infirmity.
16
I wish I had had a knowledge beforehand of the captain's infirmity.
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United Kingdom
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