senesce
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From Latin senēscere (“to grow old”).
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senesce (third-person singular simple present senesces, present participle senescing, simple past and past participle senesced)
- To grow older; to reach maturity.
- All living organisms senesce.
- 2012, Douglas E. Crews, Gillian H. Ice, “Aging, Senescence, and Human Variation”, in Sara Stinson, Barry Bogin, Dennis H. O'Rourke, editors, Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspective[1], 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
- After spawning, salmon rapidly senesce and die due to systemic endocrine alterations.
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- age, grow up; see also Thesaurus:to age
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senēsce