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Graying vs Aging - What's the difference?

graying | aging |

As verbs the difference between graying and aging

is that graying is present participle of gray while aging is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun aging is

the process of becoming older or more mature.

As an adjective aging is

becoming elderly.

graying

English

Verb

(head)

    • 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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