adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
mentally
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Constipation is uncomfortable, it may cause incontinence, it may cause confusion in some one who is mentally frail .
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In the process, it discovered such homes often provided better care for seriously mentally frail elderly people than local authority accommodation.
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Long-stay care in hospitals is provided for the physically or mentally frail elderly.
physically
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He was physically frail , but mentally clear.
so
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He looked so frail as I watched Gavin help him out of the car, followed by the cat basket.
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Miss Tish had grown so frail , weakened in mind and spirit.
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The Frasque, however, are not so frail .
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She was covered with a blanket, so frail that she scarcely formed a mound.
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She was so tiny and so frail , and her eyes saw something that was visible to no one else.
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He appeared so frail that people taking communion were moved to sympathy.
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Flesh is so frail - except yours, Joe!
too
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The great man himself is now 95 and too frail for any involvement.
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With a longer life span, a lot of people are just becoming too frail to take care of themselves.
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It looked too frail for his hand.
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She got too frail to take care of him at home, and he was put in a nursing home.
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A bit too frail and woolly for the rough and tumble of ordinary practice.
very
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For a very frail person, coming in to assist with eating tea once a week might be a family contribution.
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Hilbert would be seventy the following year and Lewis said to his wife that his uncle was beginning to look very frail .
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Whether that holds true for very frail old people is doubtful as Wenger herself recognises.
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She is very frail and beautiful and both were wildly enthusiastic.
■ NOUN
body
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But she decided Daniel's frail body would not stand up to the painful general anaesthetics and blocked the treatment.
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She smiled and went right on believing in herself and in her frail body .
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Even females suffering from anorexia nervosa tend to view their thin, frail bodies as fat and unsightly.
health
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His age and frail health should not be used as an excuse to allow him to evade trial.
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Even had my grandparents wanted to, they could not have traveled because of their frail health .
people
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There are exercises which even frail people can do.
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Hiving off frail people to a fourth age is a rejection.
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And the revolution in the structure of services and management meant elderly frail people found it increasingly difficult to assert their rights.
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Increasingly, negative attitudes are towards older, frailer people , who are now the main victims of ageism.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a frail 85-year-old lady
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A fierce storm engulfed the frail ship.
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She sat up a little straighter, raising her frail body in the bed.
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Walter looked extremely frail and old as he stepped out of the car.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A fierce gale, huge waves, and a drenching rain bear down upon the frail whaling ship with all their might.
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He looked so frail as I watched Gavin help him out of the car, followed by the cat basket.
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The arm, uplifted in a cheery wave, is bony, frail , almost opalescent.
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The disabled and frail elderly will, of course, have special requirements and will need to select a home with a view to adaptation.
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The old woman was frail as eggshell and blind.
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They would grow into frail and colorless women.
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We're talking 80,000-plus, not a frail 930.