SENESCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they senesce ... he / she / it senesces

Past simple: senesced

Past participle: senesced

-ing form: senescing

Meaning:

Grow old or older

Example:

Young men senesce

Synonyms:

age; get on; maturate; mature; senesce

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "senesce" is one way to...):

develop (grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "senesce"):

turn (become officially one year older)

fossilise; fossilize (become mentally inflexible)

dote (be foolish or senile due to old age)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

senescent (growing old)