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How to pronounce doddering in English?

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Synonyms doddery, gaga, senile


his mother was doddering and frail.

Examples of doddering

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Back then, anyone older than 40 was a doddering fool, fertilizer on the hoof.
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Second, there are still people doddering about who grew up without air conditioning.
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His doddering British commanders fatally underestimate the Japanese advance.
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Most common case is the nurse who gets herself a wedding with a doddering old charge.
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It will take more than a coup to keep America's pastime from doddering past its time.
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Doddering old fools are not the most reliable people to report such things, after all.
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Doddering and infirm, the four stand accused of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Eisner, 61, took over a doddering Disney in 1984 and made it spout money.
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Until the mid-1980s, the cruise-ship industry was a doddering old lady.
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More examples
  • A leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta having whitish or yellow filamentous stems; obtain nourishment through haustoria
  • Toddle: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle"
  • (doddering) mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail"
  • Cuscuta (Dodder) is a genus of about 100-170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants. ...
  • Any of several parasitic vines, of the genus Cuscuta, having small white flowers but no leaves; to shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter