| VERB | change | senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate | grow old or older |
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| Meaning | Grow old or older. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
| Example | "Young men senesce" | |
| Synonyms | age, get on, mature, maturate | |
| Caused by | age | make older |
| Entailed by | mature, maturate, grow | Develop and reach maturity |
| Narrower | dote | Be foolish or senile due to old age |
| fossilize, fossilise | Become mentally inflexible | |
| turn | Become officially one year older | |
| Broader | develop | Grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment |
| Spanish | envejecer, madurar | |
| Catalan | envellir, madurar | |
| Adjectives | senescent | growing old |
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