age
/eɪd͡ʒ/noun
Definitions
The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
One of the stages of life.
Example: the age of infancy
The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
Example: the age of consent; the age of discretion
verb
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To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
Example: Grief ages us.
To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
Example: Money's a little tight right now, let's age our bills for a week or so.
To categorize by age.
Example: One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.
To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
Example: He grew fat as he aged.