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senesce, v.|sɪˈnɛs|
[ad. L. senēsc-ĕre, f. sen-em (senex) old: see -esce.]
intr. To grow old.
1656Blount Glossogr. 1894Stevenson Lett. (1899) II. 321 It gets a little stale, and my work will begin to senesce. 1909G. B. Shaw Let. 22 June (1972) II. 847, I am not adolescing but senescing. 1955New Biology XVIII. 12 If they [sc. experimental animals] do not senesce, they will tend to decrease in number exponentially. 1965J. D. Salinger in New Yorker 19 June 34/1 Few of these..boys will mature. The majority..will merely senesce. 1979Nature 5 July 55/2 The secondary compounds that deter grazers while the plants are alive do not disappear immediately when plants senesce and die. |