ageing

[ ey-jing ]

noun

1. a variant of aging.

ageing

/ ˈeɪdʒɪŋ /

noun

1. the process of growing old or developing the appearance and characteristics of old age
2. the change of properties that occurs in some metals after heat treatment or cold working

adjective

1. becoming or appearing older or elderly

   an ageing car

2. giving or creating the appearance of age or elderliness

   that dress is really ageing on her

Example Sentences

Stories impact and inspire relationships and images about ageing and sexuality influence individual behaviour.

From No Straight News

Nevertheless, the ageing ayatollah is confident that his extremist support base can sustain his rule — and has judged that it is time to advance to the next stage of the Islamic Revolution.

From Time

The plan was to be closer to his ageing mother, who was already based there, while escaping the big city.

From Digiday

A rapidly ageing population means a diminishing labor force.

From Time

One study in the peer-reviewed journal Age and Ageing notes that symptoms typically present upon 6 to 12 hours of arrival at altitude—but that’s much longer than tourists usually spend atop a cable-car route.

From Outside Online

Proponents of the Warthog, however, argue that the ageing plane has no equal in supporting troops on the ground.

From The Daily Beast

For me, what was most moving was his terrible fear of ageing and his extreme dislike of his own appearance.

From The Daily Beast

The Netherlands humiliates an ageing Spain, while the world looks on in disbelief.

From The Daily Beast

To stand up to the depilation dictators, to ignore all diet and detox regimes, to embrace ageing, wrinkles, and grey hair.

From The Daily Beast

Despite the anguish, she was careful to maintain her responsibilities to her own children and ageing parents.

From The Daily Beast

Hilda's assumption that the ageing woman had telegraphed for her on inadequate grounds had proved to be quite wrong.

From Project Gutenberg

There was in it the indefinable hardening and ageing which seemed to Boyson to have affected the whole personality.

From Project Gutenberg

Evenings without number, after little Hal had been tucked into bed, the two ageing men had sat and smoked together.

From Project Gutenberg

Indeed she looked quite youthful, despite the ageing influences of black silk.

From Project Gutenberg

When was it to end—this curse of his heart not ageing while his frame moved naturally onward?

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• deteriorate
• develop
• get along
• grow
• grow up
• mature