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Curing vs Aging - What's the difference?

curing | aging |

As verbs the difference between curing and aging

is that curing is while aging is .

As nouns the difference between curing and aging

is that curing is the act by which something is cured while aging is the process of becoming older or more mature.

As an adjective aging is

becoming elderly.

curing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is cured.
  • * 1988 , Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy (page 183)
    • As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.

    aging

    English

    (wikipedia aging)

    Alternative forms

    * ageing (Commonwealth English)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (en noun) (US)
  • The process of becoming older or more mature.
  • Allowing something to become older.
    • The owner asked the clerk to age some big bills that were due.
  • The deliberate act of making something (such as an antique) appear older than it is.
  • (gerontology) Becoming senescent; accumulating damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time
  • (euphemistic) Elderly person. Only as a collective plural in "the aging"

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Becoming elderly.
    • The aging artist could no longer steadily hold the brush.

    Usage notes

    * Comparative and superlative forms are rare.

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