"doddering" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1963, Thomas Pynchon, V., J. B. Lippincott & Co., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 241",
          "text": "Treat the doddering old fool with sympathy.",
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          "text": "She treats him not as a doddering old fool but as a man hampered in his movements by injury.",
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        "mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile"
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  "word": "doddering"
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        "present participle and gerund of dodder"
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  "word": "doddering"
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          "ref": "2001, Seth Kohn, Escape on the Silk Road, page 7",
          "text": "Now that he was next in line to the minister of state security himself, an 82 year old man whose dodderings Fang graciously covered up to save everyone's face, Fang had a huge problem.",
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        "A shaking or trembling movement, as of old age."
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      "glosses": [
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