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SENESCE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they senesce ... he / she / it senesces
Past simple: senesced
Past participle: senesced
-ing form: senescing
Sense 1
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:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
senescent (growing old)
