Ageing and Growing

Ageing

Ageing noun - The organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age.
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Growing and ageing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Growing" instead the word "Ageing" as a noun or an adjective.

Nearby Word: age

Growing

Growing noun - (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level.

Ageing and growing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ageing" instead the word "Growing" as a noun or an adjective.

Nearby Words: grow, growth, grown, grower

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  • Our Fairies Are Different Flikker sheds her lower wings at one stage, this apparently being a mark of ageing or growing up.
  • Literature / The Tin Drum Growing Up Sucks: Although Oskar initially throws himself down the stairs to stop himself ageing, he forces himself to start again in his twenties.
  • Film / Children of Men Jasper is an ageing Granola Guy, living in the woods naturally with his wife, growing a new immensely popular variety of pot that has a strawberry flavor.
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