Aging and Older

Aging

Aging adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.
Usage example: more and more middle-aged adults must care for aging parents

Older and aging are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Older" instead an adjective "Aging".

Older

Older adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.
Usage example: an older woman was the chief librarian for the town

Aging and older are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Aging" instead an adjective "Older".

Both words in one sentence

  • Comic Book / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW) They are mutated into their present "teenage" and "older adult" appearances instead of aging over some years in the sewers.
  • Strangely, back when older versions of the Big Three were part of the team, they aged normally despite having the most leeway to excuse slow aging.
  • Manga / Detective Conan Granted, this is necessary to the whole point of the series; if Conan aged in real time, he would be older than he was before the de-aging.
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