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Aging

adjective

Growing old. Synonyms: ageing, senescent.

noun

(Also spelled ageing)

Acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time. Synonyms: ageing, ripening.

The organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age. Synonyms: ageing, senescence.

Age

verb

(past & past part. aged; pres. part. ageing or aging)

Begin to seem older; get older.

Grow old or older. Synonyms: get on, maturate, mature, senesce. "We age every day--what a depressing thought!" , "Young men senesce"

Make older. Antonym: rejuvenate.

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"Aging" Quotes from Famous Books

... degeneration of the heart and other muscular structures. Old age also causes these degenerations, hence alcohol is said to produce premature aging ...

— Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why - What Medical Writers Say • Martha M. Allen

... passed from childhood into girlhood, and had already touched the border of that grave land of grown-up, where all the worries lie. For though she was apparently only a larger edition of the spoiled, impulsive happy child of old, yet often her eyes were shadowed with the struggle of shielding her aging father and mother from the poverty that was ...

— Little Sister Snow • Frances Little

... blue bay, the solemn pines, the golden atmosphere, the cemetery on the hill, the women washing at the stone tubs—all was unchanged. Only the flimsy wooden houses of the Americans scattered among the adobes of the town and the aging faces of the women who had been young in her brief girlhood marked the lapse of years. There was a smile on her lips. Her monotonous life must have given her insanity or infinite peace, and peace had been her portion. In a few minutes she said good-by to the women and went home. She never ...

— The Splendid Idle Forties - Stories of Old California • Gertrude Atherton

... with a great future before them Chopin came also in contact with aging pianists with a great past behind them. Hummel, accompanied by his son, called on him in the latter part of December, 1830, and was extraordinarily polite. In April, 1831, the two pianists, the setting and the rising star, were together ...

— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks

... aging Category Transport magnate, head of Continental Hovercraft, hobbled onto the wooden veranda and stared with the others. "An airplane," he croaked. "Haer's gone too far this time. Too far, too far. This will strip him. Strip him, understand." ...

— Mercenary • Dallas McCord Reynolds

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