Age
Age verb - To become mature.
Usage example: as your cat ages and becomes less active, you should change her diet
Regress
Regress verb - To go back to a previous and usually lower state or level.
Common collocations
| time | age time | regress time |
Both words in one sentence
- The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: In Fillies Play, when the ponies are regressed, they start to mentally regress to the way they were at that age as well.
Source: Fanfic / Life in Manehattan -
In the Futurama episode "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" (in which the entire cast starts to regress in age), a much younger Professor Farnsworth sports a bodacious 'fro.
Source: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow -
This caused them to regress back the the Feudal age and lose all record of their race's history.
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