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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



... and the Bishop slept ashore at Florida, and left Mr. Brooke there to the hospitality of three old scholars for a few days, by way of making a beginning. The observations on the plan show a strange sense of ageing at only forty:— ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge
... hundred yards or so distant. There was quite an expanse of greening lawn in front and to the south, whereon stood the summerhouse, and a tangle of rose bushes hid the decaying board fence which marked the southern boundary. Along the brick sidewalk stretched a line of ageing wooden pickets and about midway in their extent hung the wooden gate with the screak. The house was frame, low and wide-stretching, with an inviting verandah about a cavernous front door that was dark ...
— Stubble • George Looms
... a village or two, tucked into folds in the hills and polluting the blue sky with a smell of ageing dung, but nothing seemed disposed to happen. A few men stood behind stone walls and stared at us sullenly. The women looked up from their grindstones at the doors, covered their faces for convention's sake, and uncovered them ...
— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy
... raught Her ageing boughs and caught Her body fast again. Then in one agony of age, grief, pain, ...
— Georgian Poetry 1918-19 • Various
... turned and shut the door slowly. Could she have been mistaken about his health? Perhaps, after all, she had perceived a change in him because she had not seen him for so long. Time sometimes did his ageing work in jerks, as she knew. Well, she had done all she could. He would not come in. ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy


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