Thesaurus:age
English
[edit]Verb
[edit](intransitive)
Sense: to grow older; to advance in age
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- age
- eld (archaic, poetic or dialectal)
- elden (archaic)
- date [⇒ thesaurus]
- get on
- grow up
- mature [⇒ thesaurus]
- obsolesce
- olden
- season
- senesce
- superannuate
- upgrow (archaic)
Antonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]Various
[edit]- 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
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “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.