ageing

Verb

age (third-person singular simple present ages, present participle aging or ageing, simple past and past participle aged)

1. (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old or older; to show marks of age.
   • He grew fat as he aged.
   1. (intransitive, usually, prediction) To suffer the passage of time so as to later be viewed or turn out in a certain way.
      • His prediction that we didn't stand a chance hasn't aged well, now that we've won the cup.
2. (transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
   • Grief ages us.
   1. (transitive) To allow to mature.
      • We age the whiskey for five years.
   2. (transitive) To treat or tamper with in order to give a false appearance of age.
      • This clock is modern, but it has been deliberately aged in an attempt to make it seem antique.
3. (transitive) To determine the age of (the length of time that something has been alive or in existence).
   • There are several ways to age trees.

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