keeping alive (verb) nurse: care for, tend
Sinonime: badly dressed, badly worn, battered, broken, dilapidated, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, moth-eaten, poorly made, ragged, raggedy, ripped, rugged, scraggy, seedy, shabby, shaggy, shoddy, threadbare, torn, torn to pieces, unkempt
Antonime: ignore,
neglect