Modifies a noun

• state: Knighton wrote: However, given the decrepit state of most of the buildings, I have to disagree with the idea of renovation.

• building: Roll up, roll up, to cast your vote in the BBC's beauty contest for decrepit old buildings.

• picture: Look like one of the decrepit pictures, he was nine o'clock the familiar sound of the key turning made him from his slumbers.

• house: Holly Black was born in a decrepit Victorian house in New Jersey.

• man: A thin, somewhat decrepit man slowly edged in.

• body: I shall not stop until I've shown this this poet of decrepit bodies the insolent idiot that he is!

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: Regardless of the ever-increasing workload shouldered by working people, industry is in an increasingly decrepit state.

• too: As many as I can fit in before I'm too decrepit to operate a computer.

• very: MURPHY was thought to be for sale to Mr. T. Burdett, and also that it was " very decrepit " .

• somewhat: A thin, somewhat decrepit man slowly edged in.

• now: The structure which foreshadowed the beauties of Art Deco architecture is now decrepit, boarded up and marked for demolition.

• rather: At this spot there is a line of rather decrepit trees, bent at odd angles by the strong prevailing winds.

Used with adjective complement

• appear: Healthy appearing decrepit 69 year old male, mentally alert but forgetful.

• grow: How shall I have a son, when my wife is barren and I have grown quite decrepit from old age?