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frail
adjective as in breakable, weak
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The girl in front of me is young … not like the old, frail woman I remember.
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Even in her frail condition, Miss Swanburne took a special interest in you.
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The king is in frail health and said to have mild dementia.
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But he is now too frail to brave the deep woods.
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For instance, they analyzed their findings after excluding volunteers who were frail or reported fair or poor health, yet results were still “consistent with those of our main analyses.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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