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younged

younged is the simple past and past participle of young.

Meaning of young

Verb

young (third-person singular simple present youngs, present participle younging, simple past and past participle younged)

  1. (informal) To become or seem to become younger.
    • The aging (or younging) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger).1993, Jacob S. Siegel, A Generation of Change, page 5
  2. (informal) To cause to appear younger.
    • Medicare data was "younged" by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census.1984, US Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, page 74
  3. To exhibit younging.
    • Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces.1994, R. Kerrich, D.A. Wyman, “The mesothermal gold-lamprophyre association”, in Mineralogy and Petrology, →DOI

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Questions about younged

What is younged the simple past and past participle of?
Younged is the simple past and past participle of young.

Words near younged in the dictionary

  1. youngcel
  2. youngcels
  3. Youngdahl
  4. Youngdahls
  5. younge
  6. younged
  7. youngen
  8. youngened
  9. youngening
  10. youngens
  11. younger

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