senescev.
/sɪˈnɛs/ intransitive. To grow old.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > be or seem old [verb (intransitive)] > grow old
oldeOE
eldc1175
to fall in (also to) agea1398
forlive1398
hoara1420
runa1425
age1440
veterate1623
senesce1656
olden1700
wane1821
to get on in years1822
senilize1841
1656 in T. Blount Glossographia
1894 R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1899) II. 321 It gets a little stale, and my work will begin to senesce.
1909 G. B. Shaw Let. 22 June (1972) II. 847 I am not adolescing but senescing.
1955 New Biology XVIII. 12 If they [sc. experimental animals] do not senesce, they will tend to decrease in number exponentially.
1965 J. D. Salinger in New Yorker 19 June 34/1 Few of these..boys will mature. The majority..will merely senesce.
1979 Nature 5 July 55/2 The secondary compounds that deter grazers while the plants are alive do not disappear immediately when plants senesce and die.
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