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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Age \Age\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Aged}; p. pr & vb n. {Aging}.]
To grow aged; to become old to show marks of age; as he
grew fat as he aged.
They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age
for all that --Holland.
I am aging; that is I have a whitish, or rather a
light-colored, hair here and there --Landor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Aged \A"ged\, a.
1. Old having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond
the usual time allotted to that species of being as an
aged man; an aged oak.
2. Belonging to old age. ``Aged cramps.'' --Shak.
3. ([=a]"j[e^]d or [=a]jd) Having a certain age; at the age
of having lived; as a man aged forty years.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
aged
adj 1: advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables);
"aged members of the society"; "elderly residents
could remember the construction of the first
skyscraper"; "senior citizen" [syn: {elderly}, {older},
{senior}]
2: at an advanced stage of erosion (pronounced as one
syllable); "aged rocks"
3: having attained a specific age; (`aged' is pronounced as one
syllable); "aged ten"; "ten years of age" [syn: {aged(a)},
{of age(p)}]
4: of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final
condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable); "mature
well-aged cheeses" [syn: {ripened}]
5: (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is
pronounced as one syllable) [syn: {cured}]
n : people who are old "special arrangements were available for
the aged" [ant: {young}]
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