Age and Shake

Age

Age noun - A long or seemingly long period of time.
Usage example: it took ages for the clerk to ring up three items

Shake is an antonym for age.

Nearby Words: aged, ageing, ageless, ageism

Shake

Shake noun - A very small space of time.
Usage example: I'll be there in two shakes

Age is an antonym for shake.

Nearby Words: shaky, shaking, shaken, shakedown, shaker

How words are described

human human age human shake
long long age long shake
true true age true shake
real real age real shake

Common collocations

time age time shake time
way age way shake way
bit age bit shake bit
little age little shake little

Both words in one sentence

  • Western Animation / Epic But when she returns at age 17, he does a terrible job of bonding with her because he has been alone so long with only a dog for company that he can't shake free of his obsession.
  • But they can't shake one nagging thought: that Ogami and Daigoro are around the age of the children and grandchildren that the ninja life had denied them.
    Source: Suicide Pact
  • Precocious Crush She's smart enough to realize that it would never work out, for their personalities if not the age difference, but it still takes a while to shake off.
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