Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Decrepitation

Decrepitation , noun

[Compare French décrépitation.]

The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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