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Ageing

adjective

Growing old. Synonyms: aging, senescent.

noun

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

The organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age. Synonyms: aging, 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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"Ageing" Quotes from Famous Books

... by 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 again at once for curiosity. ...

— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy

... has marked the progress of an ageing or shabby article of furniture, from the guest-chamber, through the family rooms upward, until it settles for life, or good behavior, in his apartment, and felt a dull pang at heart that he would not confess. Many another fellow, as shrewd and more reckless, has flung out ...

— The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) • Marion Harland

... passed by; years of sorrow for the ageing man, pining for his departed daughter. One beautiful October day he was sitting in the very same pavilion where he had so often sat with his darling. His head was bowed forward on his breast, his forehead was lined with grief. A rustling of leaves attracted his attention. He looked ...

— A Chinese Wonder Book • Norman Hinsdale Pitman

... the village life by that time. David depended on him with a sort of wistful confidence that set him to grinding his teeth occasionally in a fury at his own helplessness. And, as the extent of the disaster developed, as he saw David failing and Lucy ageing, and when in time he met Elizabeth, the feeling of his own guilt ...

— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... you about my flight. I ought to have gone straight up the arroyo.... Yet I could hardly have made it.... I did not see him again, the doctor. My last glimpse ... the old man—I remember now how the grey had spread through his beard—he was growing old—it had been ageing labour. He stood there at his laboratory door and the ...

— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams

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