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SENESCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does senesce mean?
• SENESCE (verb)
The verb SENESCE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: SENESCE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: senesced
Past participle: senesced
-ing form: senescing
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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