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[ adjective ] advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
Examples "aged members of the society" "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper" "senior citizen" Used in print (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)Above the tongue , an aged yellow eye , sallow and time-cast , encrusted within a sphere of marbleized pink skin , stared unfalteringly at him . Related terms |
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[ noun ] people who are old
Examples "special arrangements were available for the aged" Used in print (Edward Streeter, The Chairman of the Bored....)Could it be that it speeded_up for the aged in some mysterious way , as if a bored universe were skipping through the end of the chapter just to get_it_over_with ? |
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[ adjective ] at an advanced stage of erosion (pronounced as one syllable)
Examples "aged rocks" Related terms |
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