senile : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: senile	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for senile
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
senile adj mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail" Synonym(s): doddering, doddery, gaga, senile
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Senile \Se"nile\, a. [L. senilis, from senex, gen. senis, old, an old man: cf. F. s[82]nile. See {Senior}.] Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness. [bd]Senile maturity of judgment.[b8] --Boyle. {Senile gangrene} (Med.), a form of gangrene occuring particularly in old people, and caused usually by insufficient blood supply due to degeneration of the walls of the smaller arteries.