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(verb) get old or older; "We age every day--a depressing thought" |
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Synonyms: get on |
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Related Words: degenerate, deteriorate, drop |
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Antonyms: rejuvenate |
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| 2. |
(verb) grow old or older; "She aged gracefully" |
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Synonyms: maturate, mature |
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Related Words: develop, dote, fossilize |
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(verb) begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife caused him to age fast" |
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Related Words: develop |
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| 4. |
(verb) make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously" |
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Related Words: alter, change |
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Antonyms: rejuvenate |
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(noun) how long something has existed; "it was replaced because of its age" |
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Related Words: bone age, chronological age, developmental age, mental age, newness, oldness, property, youngness |
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(noun) a historic period; "we live in a litigious age" |
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Related Words: Elizabethan age, Victorian age, epoch, era |
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(noun) a time in life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises; "she was now of school age" |
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Related Words: drinking age, legal age, majority, minority, nonage, time of life, voting age |
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(noun) a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years" |
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Synonyms: long time, years |
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Related Words: aeon, amount of time, blue moon, eon, long, month of Sundays, period, period of time, time period |
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(noun) time of life; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all" |
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Synonyms: old age, years |
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Related Words: dotage, second childhood, senility, time of life |
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