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Answer for the clue "Barking dog ridden with the shakes? ", 9 letters:
doddering

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Word definitions for doddering in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile n. A shaking or trembling movement, as of old age. v (present participle of dodder English)

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Couldn't get round that doddering old snail. ▪ He pretended to his family and friends that his doddering gait was due to old soccer injuries. ▪ I had expected Gillis to be long since dead or at best a doddering ninety-year-old. ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
doddering \doddering\ adj. shaking as from old age. Syn: doddery, shaking, tottering, tottery. mentally or physically infirm with age. Syn: gaga, senile.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail" [syn: doddery , gaga , senile ]

Usage examples of doddering.

Perhaps he'd still be doddering around at the end of time, perched on the arid edge of eternity, the tails of his faded frock coat flapping around his legs in the buffeting winds as the universe finally wound to a stop.

They'd somehow managed to keep the window open into your particular time and locale, actually getting some video footage of you and your wife doddering around the wooden sidewalks of Omaha" \ \ \ "I know," Doc replied quietly.

I can see myself, doddering and silver-haired, dandling some little lad on my arthritic knee, and telling him, 'Amos, when your grandfather and I took an all-expenses paid vacation in the Ages of Chaos, I pretended to be his mistress.

Why should he trust this doddering ancient, or even his beloveda half-trained woman with an enigmatic tool of power branded into her in the overworld?

There was old King Shrewd, doddering and thin, nodding off over his dinner, or making vague and smiling conversation to no one in particular.

Regal judged Shrewd to be but a doddering helpless old man, useful as a puppet perhaps, but harmless enough.

He had a stick, yes, and his left leg was stiff about the knee, but Blayze's brother moved like no doddering invalid.