aging

Noun

 * 1) The process of becoming older or more mature.
 * 2) The deliberate process of making something (such as an antique) appear (or, in science fiction, become) older than it is.
 * 3)  The accumulation of damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time; the progressing loss of health, mobility, vibrancy and body functionality, resulting in biological death.
 * 4) Wear; wear and tear.
 * 1) Wear; wear and tear.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: شَيْخُوخَة,
 * Azerbaijani: qocalma, köhnəlmə
 * Belarusian: старэ́нне
 * Bulgarian: старе́ене
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: aldring
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: vananemine
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: დაბერება, მომწიფება, ასაკის მატება
 * German:, Alterung
 * Hebrew: הִזְדַּקְּנוּת
 * Hindi: आयुवृद्धि
 * Hungarian:, idősödés
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: қартаю
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz: картаюу
 * Latvian: novecošana
 * Lithuanian: senavimas
 * Macedonian: стареење
 * Malay:
 * Ngazidja Comorian: uɗuhazi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian:, پیرش,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ста̏ре̄ње
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: starnutie
 * Slovene: staranje
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: пиршавӣ, кӯхнашавӣ, солхурдаги
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: старі́ння, ста́ріння
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: lão hoá
 * Volapük: bäldikam


 * Danish: ældning
 * Portuguese:


 * Finnish:
 * French:

Adjective

 * 1) Becoming elderly.
 * The aging artist could no longer steadily hold the brush.

Usage notes

 * Comparative and superlative forms are rare.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: aldrande
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: