infirm
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Infirm and elderly passengers needed to be lifted into the tightly packed transport.
From US News • Jan. 31, 2015
For this reason, Dr. Frederic Zeman, head physician at Manhattan's Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, insists on a semantic distinction, doggedly calls these changes "diseases in old age," not "of old age."
From Time Magazine Archive
Infirm is applied to a person whose weakness or feebleness is due to age.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)
Infirm old men and little children, crazy-looking devotees and comely youths, boys and girls, people of all ages and degrees, are represented in the motley groups who come to these muddy waters for moral purification.
From Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Ballou, Maturin Murray
Infirm old ladies, who were not related to us, but who had nowhere else to visit, came.
From The Morgesons by Stoddard, Elizabeth
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