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ageing   (TTS Sound)

The noun ageing has 2 senses

• ripening, aging, ageing -- (acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time)


• aging, ageing, senescence -- (the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age)

The verb age has 3 senses

• age -- (begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife caused him to age fast")


• senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate -- (grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce")


• age -- (make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously")

The adj ageing has 1 sense

• aging, ageing, senescent -- (growing old)