infirm
adjective/ɪnˈfɜːm/
/ɪnˈfɜːrm/
- ill and weak, especially over a long period or as a result of being old
- to grow old and infirm
- Father was becoming increasingly infirm.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- mentally
- physically
- the infirmnoun [plural] people who are weak and ill for a long period
- care for the elderly and infirm
Word Originlate Middle English (in the general sense ‘weak, frail’): from Latin infirmus, from in- ‘not’ + firmus ‘firm’.
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