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单词 graying
释义

graying

adjective

gray·​ing ˈgrā-iŋ How to pronounce graying (audio)
variants or less commonly greying
1
: becoming gray or dull in color
His … hat thumbed back to show a wide brow and a bristle of graying hair. Helen MacInnes
Other objects had been mounted according to kind on graying scraps of plywood, which leaned about the room—against bookshelves, in corners—like canvases about a painter's studio. Donovan Hohn
2
: having hair that is becoming gray : becoming older
Through heavy promotion and advertising directed at a graying population, the nutritious elixir has become a blockbuster seller … Michael J. McCarthy
As I wait to pay the cashier, secure in her glass booth, I glance back over the starkly lit room, the graying waiters, the regulars hunched over stacks of hotcakes. Javier Cabral

Word History

First Known Use

1796, in the meaning defined at sense 1

graying

verb

variants also greying
present participle of gray
as in aging

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • aging
  • evolving
  • getting along
  • getting on
  • blossoming
  • flowering
  • blooming
  • mellowing
  • softening
  • advancing
  • flourishing
  • burgeoning
  • growing
  • maturing
  • opening
  • bourgeoning
  • ageing
  • unfolding
  • ripening
  • progressing
  • growing up
  • developing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • decaying
  • declining
  • deteriorating
  • degenerating
  • fading
  • worsening
  • drying
  • drooping
  • sagging
  • sinking
  • waning
  • weakening
  • withering
  • flagging
  • shriveling
  • wasting (away)
  • wilting
  • reverting
  • shrivelling
  • returning
  • regressing
  • lapsing
  • retrogressing
  • backsliding
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