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age·ing

(ā′jĭng)

n. Chiefly British

Variant of aging.

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ageing

(ˈeɪdʒɪŋ) or

aging

1. the process of growing old or developing the appearance and characteristics of old age

2. (Metallurgy) the change of properties that occurs in some metals after heat treatment or cold working

adj

3. becoming or appearing older or elderly: an ageing car.

4. giving or creating the appearance of age or elderliness: that dress is really ageing on her.

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Noun	1.	ageing - acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time aging, ripening mellowing - the process of becoming mellow biological process, organic process - a process occurring in living organisms
	2.	ageing - the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age senescence, aging catabiosis - normal aging of cells biological process, organic process - a process occurring in living organisms
Adj.	1.	ageing - growing old aging, senescent old - (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"

ageing

aging

adjective

1. growing old or older, declining, maturing, deteriorating, mellowing, in decline, senile, long in the tooth, senescent, getting on or past it (informal) He lives with his ageing mother.

noun

1. growing old, decline, decay, deterioration, degeneration, maturation, senility, senescence degenerative diseases and premature ageing

Quotations
"Grow old along with me!"
"The best is yet to be" [Robert Browning Rabbi Ben Ezra]

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ageing

[ˈeɪdʒɪŋ]

A. ADJ [person] → anciano, envejecido; [machinery, vehicle] → anticuado, viejo

B. N → envejecimiento m, el envejecer, senescencia f
the ageing process → el proceso de envejecer

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

ageing

aging [ˈeɪdʒɪŋ]

adj [mother, father] → vieillissant(e); [population, workforce] → vieillissant(e); [car] → vieillissant(e), en fin de parcours; [aircraft, ship, machine] → vieillissant(e), obsolescent(e)

n → vieillissement m

ageing

[ˈeɪdʒɪŋ] adj → che diventa vecchio/a
an ageing filmstar → una diva stagionata

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The experiences of aged men and women, white and black, rural and urban, well-to-do and poor, Protestant and Catholic, were by no means similar."(4) Personal documents can show how these experiences of ageing are related to social categories such as sex, class, civil status, state of health and age.

In the history of ageing, personal documents have only been used in large numbers - as far as I know by Terri L.

In the letters the women explained to the trustees why they were so eager to enter the institution, describing their experiences as ageing people.

A cracked mirror: images and self-images of elderly men and women in the Netherlands in the nineteenth century

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