Ageing Synonyms and Antonyms

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Synonyms for Ageing

senescence
(Gerontology) Old age; accumulated damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time.
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deteriorating
To grow worse; degenerate:
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senescent
Growing old; aging.
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ripening
The process of becoming ripe.
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maturing
(Intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To become mature; to ripen.
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mellowing
The definition of mellow is to calm down or to cause someone to calm down.
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timing
To record the speed or duration of:
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developing
To aid in the growth of; strengthen:
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seasoning
To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.
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failing
To omit to perform (an expected duty, for example):
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wrinkling
To make wrinkles or a wrinkle in:
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waning
To decline in power, importance, prosperity, influence, etc.
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spanning
To extend across in space or time:
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aging
Becoming elderly.
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declining
To refuse to accept or do something, esp. in a way that is formally polite
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growing
To develop and reach maturity.
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maturating
To ripen; mature
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Antonyms for Ageing

rejuvenating
To develop youthful topographic features in (a previously leveled area).
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Ageing Sentence Examples

  • In the construction of such an instrument it is essential that the wire should be subjected to a process of preparation or " ageing," which consists in passing through it a fairly strong current, at least the maximum that it will ever have to carry, and starting and stopping this current frequently.

  • It is essential that the permanent magnet should be subjected to a process of ageing so that its field may not be liable to change subsequently with time.

  • Two years are usually required for ageing, but some tobaccos are kept for four or five years before being manufactured.

  • Augustus was ageing fast, and was more and more disinclined to appear personally in the senate or in public. Yet in A.D.

  • The cessation of assisted immigration early in the life of the present generation is alleged to have had considerable influence upon the rate, in Victoria, at least, owing to the curtailment of the supply of adult women of the more conceptive ages and the ageing of those who had reached the country at an earlier date.

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