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on its last legs
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(Definition of on its last legs from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Damaging and spoiling
- Destroying and demolishing
- Deteriorating and making worse
- Exploding and erupting
- Fragile and breakable
- Hitting against objects accidentally and colliding
- Hitting and beating
- Injuring and injuries
- Scratching and rubbing
- Squeezing and grinding
- Tearing and breaking into pieces
- Undamaged, unbroken or in good condition
- Upsetting and destabilizing
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Synonyms and related words:
- battered adjective (HIT)
- beat up adjective
- blasted adjective (DAMAGED)
- broken-down adjective
- burton noun
- Dickensian adjective
- fleabitten adjective
- have seen better days idiom
- in good, bad, etc. repair idiom
- kaput adjective
- manky adjective
- shattered adjective (BROKEN)
- shop-soiled adjective
- shopworn adjective
- shred noun (CUT)
- stricken adjective
- worm-eaten adjective
- worn out adjective (USED)
- wrack noun
- wrecked adjective (THING)
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