English > senesce: 1 sense > verb 1, change| Meaning | Grow old or older. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
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| Example | "Young men senesce" |
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| Synonyms | age, get on, mature, maturate |
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| Caused by | age | make older |
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| Entailed by | mature, maturate, grow | Develop and reach maturity |
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| Narrower | dote | Be foolish or senile due to old age |
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| 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 |
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| Spanish | envejecer, madurar |
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| Catalan | envellir, madurar |
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| Adjectives | senescent | growing old |
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