aging
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Sense: Adjective: growing old
Synonyms:
ageing , declining, waning, failing Collocations, falling, sinking Collocations, mellowing, getting on, getting along, maturing, senescent, developing Collocations, fermenting, wasting away, wearing out, growing old, graying, greying , lapsing, outworn, fading Collocations, crumbling, decaying, deteriorating, moldering, mouldering , falling apart, doddering, one foot in the grave, over the hill, stale Collocations, getting on in years, past it
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age
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Sense: Noun: period of existence
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Sense: Noun: period of time
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era Collocations, epoch, period Collocations, time Collocations, eon, aeon , day Collocations, term Collocations, generation Collocations
Sense: Noun: old age
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old age, advanced years, elderliness, maturity Collocations, oldness, twilight years, declining years, sunset years, dotage, decrepitude, seniority, senescence, experience Collocations
Sense: Noun: long time - often plural
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a long time, years, eternity Collocations, forever Collocations, an eon, an aeon , donkey's years , yonks
Sense: Verb: grow old
Synonyms:
grow old, get on, get on in years, advance in years, turn gray, turn grey , turn white, show your years, show your age, decline Collocations, wane Collocations, wrinkle Collocations, waste away, grow feeble, deteriorate, go downhill
Sense: Verb: mature
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