Age
Age verb - To become mature.
Grow older and age are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Grow older" instead a verb "Age".
Grow older
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- For the likes of Monshiro, he's explicitly waiting for her to grow older because he's not really physically attracted to her given her age.
Source: Has a Type - Duck Dodgers: In "Duck Codgers", Dodgers and the Cadet get sprayed with a gas that causes them to grow older, but makes Martians age in reverse, like X-2.
Source: Merlin Sickness - Conversely, Felicity's parents are left to moan that they're going to die knowing their daughter will be all alone when she wakes up, as they grow older she won't age a day.
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