'decrepitude' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun which refers to physical decline and deterioration, especially due to aging. Example sentence: The old house had fallen into decrepitude over the years.
But given the decrepitude of much of its existing water infrastructure, and its profligate ways with water, its more urgent priorities are to repair and reform.Worshipping old godsFamine-prone for most of its history, India's attachment to dams is understandable.
Many power cuts are due to the decrepitude of the grid.
One sign of their decrepitude was the multiple awards won by "The King's Speech".
In Melbourne that also means good lanes, arcades and frontages, many of which were built in the 19th century and had fallen into decrepitude.
For Beckett, an Irish playwright born 100 years ago who won the Nobel prize in literature in 1969, adversity and decrepitude were a rich source of humour.
But a new national oil law has been stalled in the federal parliament in Baghdad for at least three years.The Kurds say they have shown up the decrepitude of Iraq's oil establishment.
"Governing elites", he writes, "were attracted by the potential of liberalisation to provide new sources of patronage to substitute for some of those forfeited by the shrinkage of the state's regulatory role".In both India and Pakistan, the decrepitude of the state sector has made room not just for mafias but also for vibrant private initiatives.
Last month was the turn, not for the first time, of one of the most crucial: a scheme to redevelop Dharavi slum, allegedly Asia's biggest, which would involve resettling around 300,000 people.At its current pace, the redevelopment of Mumbai is probably not keeping up with the city's worsening decrepitude.
Fiercely political Alice discovers that her erstwhile parents are her grandparents, who thereupon shrivel: "Deceit had kept them young whereas the truth had accelerated them practically into decrepitude".
But against it there are hopeful signs: the decrepitude of the BJP's government suggests that India's multitudes are not willing to accept Hindutva or any other mono-vision.
The city's rail network is overloaded and its roads are clogged up.Why nothing worksThere are two main reasons for the decrepitude.
