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Adjective: aging  ey-jing
  1. Growing old
    - ageing, senescent
Noun: aging  ey-jing
  1. Acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time
    - ripening, ageing
     
  2. The organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age
    - ageing, senescence
Verb: age (ageing, also aging)  eyj
Usage:
  1. Begin to seem older; get older
    "The death of his wife caused him to age fast"
     
  2. Grow old or older
    "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"
    - senesce, get on, mature, maturate
     
  3. Make older
    "The death of his child aged him tremendously"
     
  4. [] Cause to ripen or develop fully
    "Age matures a good wine"
    - ripen, mature
     
  5. [] Become due for repayment
    - mature
     
  6. [] Develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
    - mature, maturate, grow
     
  7. [] Cause to ripen and discharge pus
    - suppurate, mature
     
  8. [] Develop and work out fully in one's mind
    - mature

Derived forms: agings

See also: old

Type of: alter, biological process, change, develop, draw, explicate, formulate, modify, organic process

Antonym: rejuvenate

Encyclopedia: Age

Aging