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adjective
ageing  adj.  
1.
Having lived for a relatively long (or a specified) time; not young; used especially of persons. Opposite of young.
Synonyms: aging, senescent, old.


verb
Age  v. t.  (past & past part. aged; pres. part. ageing or aging)  To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.


Age  v. i.  (past & past part. aged; pres. part. ageing or aging)  To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged. "They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that." "I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there."


noun
ageing  n.  Same as aging.
Synonyms: ripening, aging, mellowing


Aging  n.  (Also spelled ageing)  The process by which objects or materials acquire desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time under specific conditions. It is used mostly for foods snd beverages, but also for other materials.





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"Ageing" Quotes from Famous Books



... will, when the cup has been drained and the play has been played, and sit down by your quiet river with a store of goodly memories for company. You can easily overtake me on the road, for you are young, and I am ageing and go softly. I will linger, and look back; and at last I will surely see you coming, eager and light-hearted, with all the South ...
— The Wind in the Willows • Kenneth Grahame
... which had become his tomb. Moreover, as Bakuma knew well, now that Zalu Zako was heir-apparent, he must choose the principal wife who would for her life remain paramount in the household, avoiding the dread of every ageing woman that her husband would take unto him another wife ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle
... and the ageing artiste with her ravaged complexion and her defiant extra-vivacious mien created instantly an impression such as none but herself could have created. The entire assemblage stared, murmuring its excitement, at the renowned creature. ...
— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett
... Joke Department, with its tongue in its cheek, bids us prepare to go under canvas at C. Married officers hurriedly despatch advance parties, composed of their wives, to secure houses or lodgings in the bleak and inhospitable environs of their new station; while a rapidly ageing Mess President concludes yet another demoralising bargain with a ruthless and omnipotent caterer. Then—this is the cream of the joke—the day before we expect to move, the Practical Joke Department puts out a playful hand and sweeps us all into some half-completed huts at D, somewhere at the other ...
— The First Hundred Thousand • Ian Hay
... caged eagle in a swift turn of the falcon profile, or in a sudden flash of the old eyes beneath the straight Heredith brows. At such times the Heredith face—the warrior face of a long line of fierce fighters and freebooting ancestors—leaped alive in the ageing features of the last but one of ...
— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees


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