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Meanings of infirm in inglês
Synonyms
Examples for "weak"
Examples for "weak"
1
Rising labour costs and weak demand remained key factors constraining companies' growth.
2
Good news, since the results come during the firm's weak summer months.
3
Thousands of serious crimes have gone unpunished by Mexico's weak justice system.
4
That's partly because the weak housing market means few new construction jobs.
5
Yet threats of retaliation underscore the weak legal case of opposed countries.
1
Most of Europe suffers from record low investment and feeble productivity growth.
2
In appearance they are feeble; in reality, copious and full of force.
3
Now, with the aid of feeble though welcome light, his courage grew.
4
The story that the candle had expired seemed feeble in the extreme.
5
It would be better to enter alone; he must not appear feeble.
1
However, CGWS has been demonstrated so far only in weakly scattering samples.
2
The MPC said the economy appeared to be growing again, albeit weakly.
3
Norine seated herself weakly; she stared in bewilderment at the unhappy speaker.
4
I smiled weakly and answered no, but yes, yes, something was wrong.
5
George smiled weakly, still not quite back into the world of words.
1
It has the potential to completely undermine an already rickety democratic process.
2
A Florida cracker family, in a rickety wagon, stopped to help them.
3
And the rickety gig rattled merrily off in search of broken bones.
4
He has great arguments but built the most rickety of bully pulpits.
5
The room at the foot of the rickety, patched stairs was empty.
1
Tens of thousands of children enter Russia's decrepit orphanage system every year.
2
The decrepit regime Syria's president heads is getting really good at repression.
3
The second house was a converted detached garage in back, equally decrepit.
4
Its location in the middle of Dublin 4 belied its decrepit state.
5
Family after family arrives, each claiming a decrepit ancestor amid high-decibel greetings.
1
The wrong-doers followed that by which they were made sapless, and were guilty.
2
The carcass becomes a sapless mummy, a mere bit of leather.
3
Adversity has shaken them all like dead leaves from sapless branches.
4
They could never have made his sapless nature break into leafage.
5
They chew hungrily at the sapless fibre of the dead reed-stalks.
1
Too weak and faltering to be febrile, Chopin is here a debile, prematurely exhausted young man.
2
The family magazine of the literary order has been debile, so radical critics charge, since its journalistic offspring began to sweep America.
3
A little priest came in, a man scarcely thirty years of age, but thin and debile of build, with a long, seared, saffron-coloured face.
Usage of infirm in inglês
1
There is a moral issue involved in refusing care to the infirm.
2
The camp was deserted of all except the infirm and very aged.
3
Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many sleep.
4
The mind is too infirm to be entirely occupied with higher knowledge.
5
Aged and infirm as Opechancanough was, the wound was not instantly mortal.
6
All old and infirm people and also strangers were exempted from taxation.
7
Second, the only support of an aged or infirm spinster or bachelor.
8
Next came more Blackguards, helping infirm drafters or wheeling them in chairs.
9
There are few old and infirm persons who have not living relatives.
10
The third, very old and very infirm, had not a better fate.
11
Sucklers, old, infirm and pregnant receive the same allowances as full-work hands.
12
We support neither old nor young, diseased nor infirm-thatis the truth.
13
Nor did she feel tired any more, infirm of will and spent.
14
Mrs. Sprague had been too infirm to see her when she called.
15
For Cynthy Ann had tied her conscience to her rather infirm logic.
16
He was, as I have just told you, very old and infirm.
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Infirm through the time
Infirm across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common