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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

... home to the smaller settlers far and wide. It may be that these things hastened the breaking-down of Sir Harry Atkinson's health in 1890. At any rate fail it did, unhappily. His colleague, Sir Frederick Whitaker, was ageing palpably. Nor did Sir John Hall's health allow ...

— The Long White Cloud • William Pember Reeves

... a week I lingered upon this writing, and having completed it I was moved to print it, in order that it might remind some other son of his duty to his ageing parents sitting in the light of their lonely hearth, and in doing this I again vaguely forecast the composition of an autobiographic manuscript—one which should embody minutely and simply the homely daily toil ...

— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

... over this letter. Our parents would fain have gone at once to Baden, but my father was far from well; in fact, it was the beginning of the break-up of his constitution. He had been ageing ever since his disappointment in Griffith, and though he had so enjoyed his jaunt with my mother that he had seemed revived for the time, he had been visibly failing ever since the winter, and my mother durst ...

— Chantry House • Charlotte M. Yonge

... strong moorland air some slight non-incapacitating ailment will leave him: illness is inconvenient and disappointing, but not ruinous. There, Tony wonders if the exposure and continual boat-hauling are not taking too much out of him; if he is not ageing before his time; if he will not be past earning before the younger children are off his hands. Here, they laugh at trifles, keeping what is serious behind a veil of conventional manners, lest, appearing in broad daylight, it should damp their ...

— A Poor Man's House • Stephen Sydney Reynolds

... variety of emotional result which arises out of the cross-shaped plan of the Gothic cathedral, and the undesigned delight and wonder of white marble that has ensued, as I have been told, through the ageing and whitening of the realistically coloured statuary of the Greeks and Romans. Much of the charm of the old furniture and needlework, again, upon which the present time sets so much store, lies in acquired and unpremeditated ...

— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells

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