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ageing vs aging

ageing

Definitions

adjective

  1. growing old

noun

  1. the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age
  2. acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time

Examples

The added demands brought about by the ageing population will place an insupportable burden on acute hospital services.

The channel's viewership is ageing, and attempts to attract younger watchers have yet to bear fruit.

It has a natural affinity with oak ageing, and yet it can be fresh and light.

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aging

Definitions

adjective

  1. growing old

noun

  1. the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age
  2. acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time

Examples

Methone is a bit bigger than Anthe, at 3km (1.8 miles) in diameter, it too was discovered by the Cassini imaging team in 2004.

I admire the inventiveness, and while not everything is a raging success, there's a lot to like.

More extensive staging revealed multiple vertebral lesions consistent with metastases, but no spread to abdominal viscera was visualized.

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