Thesaurus:age

Thesaurus

age

English

Verb

(intransitive)

Sense: to grow older; to advance in age

Synonyms

• age
• eld (archaic, poetic or dialectal)
• elden (archaic)
• date    [⇒ thesaurus]
• get on
• grow up
• mature    [⇒ thesaurus]
• obsolesce
• olden
• season
• senesce
• superannuate
• upgrow (archaic)

Antonyms

• rejuvenate
• youngen
• youthen

Hyponyms

• adult    [⇒ thesaurus] (nonstandard, rare)
• go bad
• ripen
• wrinkle
•   —
• go/turn grey
• go/turn white
• grey

Hypernyms

• develop
• progress

Various

• decay
• wither
•   —
• go by the wayside (idiomatic)
• go the way of the dinosaurs (idiomatic)
• go the way of the dodo (idiomatic)
• go the way of the dodo bird (idiomatic)

See also

• Thesaurus:make older

Further reading

• “128. age” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “age” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
• “grow up” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.