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shown one's age

shown one's age is the past participle of show one's age.

Meaning of show one's age

Verb

show one's age (third-person singular simple present shows one's age, present participle showing one's age, simple past showed one's age, past participle shown one's age)

  1. To indicate by appearance or other factors that a person is no longer young, or ageing, or of an object, no longer new and ageing.
    • The interior of 313201 is showing its age. The non-alignment with the windows has always been a neck-stretching problem since the high-backed 2+2 seating was installed in around 2010. [page 42, photo caption] The front-end design of the Class 313s has never shown its age.2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 39, photo caption

Questions about shown one's age

What is shown one's age the past participle of?
Shown one's age is the past participle of show one's age.

Words near shown one's age in the dictionary

  1. shown colour
  2. shown down
  3. shown forth
  4. shown in
  5. shown off
  6. shown one's age
  7. shown one's ass
  8. shown one's butt
  9. shown one's cards
  10. shown one's claws
  11. shown one's hand

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