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Перевод: senile

[прилагательное]
старческий; дряхлый; сенильный

Тезаурус:

1. Roget's Thesaurus , a classic English text which seeks to arrange words "according to the ideas which they express", describes old age by such nouns as "senility, grey hairs, climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation, second childhood, dotage, decline of life" and, even more graphically, by the adjectives "senile, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime, grey, hoary, venerable, time-worn, antiquated, doddering, decrepit, superannuated, stricken in years, wrinkled, having one foot in the grave."
2. Certainly those working with the mentally ill or the handicapped or the senile or in health education may properly think it is.
3. Enzyme deficiency linked to senile dementia
4. I am to remain ill and without treatment, I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman."
5. She had tremendous will-power, and the locals reckoned she would outlive everyone just to spite them, yet she was so senile she was practically imb -senile!
6. Waugh's "senile slobber" against Eliot - he as good as called Eliot "a drunken helot" - has been remarked on several times, notably in his son Evelyn's autobiography, A Little Learning .
7. After those first few chats with his Aunt Emily, Alec soon realised that she was slightly senile.
8. And, if she has a sister who is going out of her mind, I have had a mother eighty-nine years old and senile, I cannot be said to deserve any further burdens nor to have failed in carrying out my duty.
9. These include calling in the fire brigade at the first sign of what they quaintly call "smouldering in senile machinery" and ejecting all the customers forthwith, and not opening stations if the required number of staff (two on the smaller stations) have failed to turn up.
10. BANCHIERI "LA PAZZIA SENILE"
11. Betty's mother is suffering from a mild form of senile dementia, and the family has decided residential care will be best for her.
12. Such research should also consider whether there is a link between long-term exposure to low concentrations of organic solvents and other neurotoxic substances and the appearance of early senile dementia and other brain damage.
13. "Poor old devil's practically senile."