doddered
[ dod-erd ]
adjective
infirm; feeble.
(of a tree) having lost most of its branches owing to decay or age.
Origin of doddered
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How to use doddered in a sentence
I tell the doddered asses Napoleon would have been over if Villeneuve had obeyed him to the letter.
Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete | George MeredithThe green glades in the autumnal woods were inviting, and sometimes they stood before the vast form of some doddered oak.
Endymion | Benjamin DisraeliHe found a charm in the spectral aspect of the doddered oak.
Shirley | Charlotte BrontI was endeavouring to discover his fate when old William Trimble doddered along.
He doddered into the Board-room I'd just left, an' the Dandie-dog that is just his blind man's leader stayed wi' me.
The Day's Work, Volume 1 | Rudyard Kipling
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