SENESCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does senesce mean? 

• SENESCE (verb)
  The verb SENESCE has 1 sense:

1. grow old or older

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENESCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they senesce    ... he / she / it senesces   
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)