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Egging vs Aging - What's the difference?

egging | aging |

As verbs the difference between egging and aging

is that egging is while aging is .

As nouns the difference between egging and aging

is that egging is the act of pelting with eggs while aging is the process of becoming older or more mature.

As an adjective aging is

becoming elderly.

egging

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of pelting with eggs.
  • * 2010 , Daniel R. Biddle, Murray Dubin, Tasting Freedom (page 167)
  • “I stand in relation to him something like that of a child to a parent,” Douglass wrote of the owlish man who had stood with him through mobbings and eggings .

    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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