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3 definitions found 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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