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Aged

adjective

Advanced in years; ('aged' is pronounced as two syllables). Synonyms: elderly, older, senior. "Elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper" , "Senior citizen"

At an advanced stage of erosion (pronounced as one syllable).

Having attained a specific age; ('aged' is pronounced as one syllable). Synonym: of age. "Ten years of age"

Of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; ('aged' pronounced as one syllable). Synonym: ripened.

(used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process ('aged' is pronounced as one syllable). Synonym: cured.

noun

People who are old collectively. Synonym: elderly.

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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... old couple and Burdale made their appearance, they did not in any way allude to what had taken place during the night, as if they had been totally ignorant of it. Breakfast was got ready by the aged dame; and afterwards Jack stole about the building, and found his way without difficulty into the vault below. Not a trace of any of the occupants of the previous evening was to be seen, but how they had ...

— John Deane of Nottingham - Historic Adventures by Land and Sea • W.H.G. Kingston

... A dark, grizzled, middle-aged man, in a naval uniform, had advanced from the throng. Napoleon took three quick little steps towards him in so menacing a fashion, that I saw the weather-stained cheeks of the sailor turn a shade paler, and he gave a helpless glance round him, as ...

— Uncle Bernac - A Memory of the Empire • Arthur Conan Doyle

... Smiting a rib, 'Heigh! what have we been about, Tom! Was this all a terrible fib?' He cried, and the letter forth-trembled. Tom told what the cannon had done. Few present but ached to see falling those aged tears ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... History of Long Island," vol. ii. In regard to his capture, Lieutenant Jabez Fitch, of Huntington's regiment, says in his narrative: "On ye 6th [of Sept.] Genll Woodhull, of ye Long Island malitia, was sent from ye Mentor to ye Hospital at Newatrect [New Utrecht]; he was an aged Gentleman, & was taken by a party of ye Enemy's light Horse at Jameca, & altho he was not taken in arms, yet those Bloodthirsty Savages cut & wounded him in ye head & other parts of ye body, with ...

— The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn • Henry P. Johnston

... light, exultant feeling in his middle-aged heart as he scampered along the deck. The girl had wonderful dark auburn hair and brown eyes, with a milk-white skin that sun and wind had sought in vain to blemish. And for all her girlhood she was ...

— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne

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