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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.

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... himself aging in the service, and with daughters who might be left as was this girl,—penniless,—understood, and bowed in silent sympathy. It was the sight of the gash in Brannan's fist that called him back to ...

— Under Fire • Charles King

... its hard corps of trained and tested veterans. Also it has its problem of aging. The apprentice of yesterday becomes the experienced, skilled operator of today. Tomorrow brings retirement for those who have reached the age limit of service and who as a matter of group routine are replaced by newcomers. In the course ...

— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing

... reply at once. The aging face was turned in the direction of the son who meant so much to her. Her eyes, so handsome and steady, were wistful. They gazed into the joy-lit face of her boy. She ...

— The Triumph of John Kars - A Story of the Yukon • Ridgwell Cullum

... have left the Earth, and how, amid all the pleasurable things of this serene and hopeful life, the hidden loneliness has denied it the last completing touch of joy! Only as I still dare to believe, that the flight of years must end his aging days on Earth, and that the eternal destiny of married souls is an eternal union, and that his reincarnation here shall bring us into a new and better, richer, deeper harmony of mind and tastes and thoughts; only as the belief grows stronger with passing time, can I, so surrounded ...

— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap

... years had come and gone in a single moment, leaving no mark of their passage. Time had gone on, in the one case; it had stood still in the other. A man who has not seen a friend for a generation, keeps him in mind always as he saw him last, and is somehow surprised, and is also shocked, to see the aging change the years have wrought when he sees him again. Marie Couttet's experience, in finding his friend's hand unaltered from the image of it which he had carried in his memory for forty years, is an experience which stands alone in the history of ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

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