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SENESCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does senesce mean? 

SENESCE (verb)
  The verb SENESCE has 1 sense:

1. grow old or olderplay

  Familiarity information: SENESCE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SENESCE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they senesce  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it senesces  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: senesced  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: senesced  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: senescing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Grow old or older

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

age; get on; maturate; mature; senesce

Context example:

Young men senesce

Hypernyms (to "senesce" is one way to...):

develop (grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "senesce"):

turn (become officially one year older)

fossilise; fossilize (become mentally inflexible)

dote (be foolish or senile due to old age)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

senescent (growing old)


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