senilize

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

senile + -ize

Verb

senilize (third-person singular simple present senilizes, present participle senilizing, simple past and past participle senilized)

  1. (dated, transitive) To advance in time of life.
    • 1951, Marinus Johaness Dijkman, Hevea: Thirty Years of Research in the Far East:
      Although the climate tends to quickly senilize the soil weathered from it, the frequent rejuvenations by the eruptives from Bromo and Semeroe keep the soils relatively juvenile.
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