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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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... with the pathos of the aged, who see their old friends slipping from them one by one—friends whose place can never be quite filled by those of a younger generation, even of the race that knows Joseph. Anne and Gilbert promised to ...

— Anne's House of Dreams • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... of the most glaring instances of German indifference to brutality is afforded by the following incident. A commercial traveller named Luederitz, aged twenty-three, murdered his sweetheart in a Leipzig hotel by strangling her with his necktie. He alleged that he had killed the girl at her wish, and the judge sentenced him to three years, six months' imprisonment—not even penal servitude! ...

— What Germany Thinks - The War as Germans see it • Thomas F. A. Smith

... barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied; Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes. Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes From betwixt two aged oaks, Where Corydon and Thyrsis, met Are at their savoury dinner set Of herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses; And then in haste her bower she leaves With Thestylis to ...

— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various

... but we see that he liked Mrs. Bowes, and Marjorie Bowes too, no doubt: he is careful to style the elderly lady "Mother." Knox's letters to Mrs. Bowes show the patience and courtesy with which the Reformer could comfort and counsel a middle-aged lady in trouble about her innocent soul. As she recited her infirmities, he reminds her, he "started back, and that is my common consuetude when anything pierces or touches my heart. Call to your mind what I did standing at the cupboard at Alnwick; in very deed I thought that no creature ...

— John Knox and the Reformation • Andrew Lang

... Master Corrie burst in upon the sturdy middle-aged merchant, named Ole Thorwald, a Norwegian who had resided much in England, and spoke the English language well, and who prided himself on being entitled to claim descent from the old Norwegian sea-kings. This man was ...

— Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader • R.M. Ballantyne

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