(n.) A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
(n.) The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail.
(n.) A rush for weaving baskets.
(superl) Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.
(superl) Tender.
(superl) Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women.
Example Sentences:
(1) Variability among frail elders and variability over 30 days within the same person, when factored, also showed nonequivalence.
(2) The objective of this investigation was to determine the frequency of and predictors for inadequate barium enemas in the frail elderly.
(3) To develop a noninvasive clinical predictive model for acute congestive heart failure (CHF) in a frail elderly cohort using bedside clinical assessment (medical history and physical examination) and venous atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) levels.
(4) 1) Defensively frail England should go for broke Argue about the Danny Rose handball and the charge on Phil Jagielka all you like, but you’ll be dancing on the head of a pin.
(5) Physicians not only need better preparation to meet the challenges of caring for frail older patients, but they also need changes in reimbursement policies so that they can afford to spend the time needed to manage the complexities inherent in the doctor-patient-family caregiver relationship.
(6) Our data demonstrate that frail elderly receiving only acute care do not suffer markedly prolonged total LOS (TLOS).
(7) Her warning comes as figures reveal that regulators are receiving more than 150 allegations of abuse of the frail and elderly every day.
(8) At the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London, he seemed extremely frail and was only able to walk a few steps.
(9) In particular the rapid aging of the Chinese population has prompted official concern about the financial implications of providing health care to increasing numbers of disabled or frail elderly.
(10) In the Lords, the broadcaster Joan Bakewell called on the government to take "the most urgent steps" to relieve the suffering of neglected old and frail people.
(11) One hundred-seventeen subjects 65 years of age and over, meeting eligibility criteria to target frail older persons with changing medical and social needs, were randomly assigned to receive a comprehensive geriatric assessment by a multidisciplinary team (treatment) or by one of a panel of community internists who were reimbursed according to their usual and customary fee (controls).
(12) In a statement, the chief medical officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, said: "Severe winter flu and its complications can make people really ill and can kill, particularly those who are weak and frail which is why we already offer vaccinations to the most at risk groups.
(13) Endoscopic intervention is a valuable alternative for the removal of retained stones or in frail patients not fit for general anaesthesia.
(14) Photograph: AFP Saint Laurent became an object of immediate fascination: quiet, timid, with neatly parted schoolboy hair, anxious eyes lurking behind thick glasses and a frail body encased in a tight black suit.
(15) One minute the Führer was so frail he could barely stand up.
(16) Rugi arranged for Katadia’s father to phone at a time when she would be in the zone to facilitate and hold the phone to the ear of his frail little daughter.
(17) Concerning household composition this study showed that frail elderly living alone and residents of old people's homes had significantly more depressive complaints than frail elderly living with others and independently living frail elderly respectively.
(18) There are fewer signs that Erdoğan’s designation of half the Turkish population as congenitally frail and incompetent, such as to recall apartheid if the target were another race, is regarded as utterly incompatible with accession.
(19) He was so thin and frail, but he was able to conduct.
(20) Frail patients died in hospital not from their primary illness but from the staphylococcus infection they picked up there, which the antibiotic methicillin was no longer able to treat because the bacteria had become resistant to the drug as a result of overuse.
Perish
Definition:
(v. i.) To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
(v. t.) To cause perish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not one life was lost – though of course millions of votes might well have perished in this inhospitable terrain.
(2) The groups of survived and perished animals differed (the difference was statistically significant) by the extent of coordination of the enzymatic lymphocyte systems: the correlation of enzymatic indices in the survived animals was greater than in the perished ones.
(3) Yesterday, Harry Patch died peacefully in his bed at his residential home in Wells, Somerset, a man who spent his last years urging his friends and many admirers never to forget the 9.7 million young men who perished during the 1914-18 war.
(4) The six trained together, were dispatched to Afghanistan together and, in the end, perished together when their armoured vehicle was hit by a massive Taliban bomb.
(5) The authors report about 3 cases of the congenital adreno-genital syndrome in first-born children with a high weight at birth (3900, 3600, and 4200 g) who perished in early infancy.
(6) Wet corn gluten feed is also an adequate supplement for raising dairy replacements, allowing more rapid utilization of this perishable feed resource by the dairy herd.
(7) Niger to ban women and children travelling in Sahara after 92 perish Read more The sub-Saharan migrants are determined.
(8) Final internal processing temperatures within the range of 63 to 74 degrees C did not alter the degree of botulinal inhibition in inoculated perishable canned comminuted cured pork abused at 27 degrees C. Adding hemoglobin to the formulation reduced residual nitrite after processing and decreased botulinal inhibition.
(9) In 1945 I got word that my two sons had died in the Leningrad blockade and my husband had perished fighting in Smolensk.
(10) Non-perishables – spaghetti, rice, flour, condensed milk, tomato sauce – come from the food bank.
(11) More than 30 of the 189 Americans who perished on the flight were from the state of New Jersey.
(12) The heroine of Jane Eyre is hypnotised by this cold and saintly missionary, who proposes that they marry and go to India together to convert heathens (and perish doing God's holy work).
(13) There was not only an increase in average days of survival of those that perished, but also a marked increase in the number of greater than 60-day survivors.
(14) After a crisis meeting at the Elysée on Friday morning, Hollande confirmed that all 118 people on board – 112 passengers and six Spanish crew – had perished.
(15) Your little country will forever be honoured as the site that made the Princess Diana thing look like a restrained wake for a loathed spinster who perished alone on a desert island.
(16) It became clear that there was no chance of a successful rescue and the children perished.
(17) The control group was composed of 7 practically healthy persons who had perished suddenly as a result of craniocerebral trauma.
(18) It was found that in the gills of minnow, the other mass fish in the northern rivers of the USSR, larvae of M. margaritifera cannot develop and perish.
(19) We're here to celebrate not only comrade Madiba but all the men and women who perished in the liberation war."
(20) When using in the lymphocytotoxic reaction lymphocytes stored in frozen condition the proportion of perished cells after thawing should not exceed 10-20%.