age
/eɪd͡ʒ/ verb B1- To grow aged; to become old or older; to show marks of age. · He grew fat as he aged.
- 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.· The sitcom was made in the 1970s and its casual sexism has not aged well.
- To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to. · Grief ages us.
- To allow to mature. · We age the whiskey for five years.
- 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.
- To determine the age of (the length of time that something has been alive or in existence). · There are several ways to age trees.
- To indicate or reveal that (a person) has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one. · I clearly remember hearing the news of Kennedy's assassination. That ages me.
- To allow (something) to persist by postponing an action that would extinguish it, as a debt. · Money's a little tight right now. Let's age our bills for a week or so.
He/she/it ages · Past aged · Past participle aged · -ing form aging
Verb forms
- Base form
- age
- He/she/it
- ages
- Past
- aged
- Past participle
- aged
- -ing form
- aging
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Thus he came along, supporting himself on a curiously carved stick, his aged countenance lit up with happiness, looking for all the world like one of the aged dandies of 1796, parading the newly opened gardens of the Luxembourg and Tuileries.
He was a man of twenty-five or twenty-six years of age, of unprepossessing countenance, obsequious to his superiors, insolent to his subordinates; and this, in addition to his position as responsible agent on board, which is always obnoxious to the sailors, made him as much disliked by the crew as Edmond Dantès was beloved by them.
In fact, they seemed about as tall as Dorothy, who was a well-grown child for her age, although they were, so far as looks go, many years older.
“Your age?” continued Villefort.
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