Synonyms of the word

senesce

• v. To grow older; reach maturity.

age

• n. The whole duration of a being being alive, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind.
• n. The amount of full years/months/days/hours etc. which someone, or something, has been alive.
• n. (uncountable) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given…
• n. (uncountable) The latter part of life; an advanced period of life, eld; seniority; state of being old.
• n. (countable) One of the stages of life.
• n. (uncountable) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
• n. (countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
• n. (countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
• n. (countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.
• n. (countable) A century; the period of one hundred years.
• n. The people who live at a particular period.
• n. (countable) A generation.
• n. (countable, hyperbolic) A long time.
• n. (poker) The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then…
• v. (transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
• v. (transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.
• v. (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.

develop

• v. (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
• v. (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
• v. (transitive) To create.
• v. (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
• v. (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
• v. (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
• v. (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving…
• v. (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations…

maturate

• v. To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
• v. To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).

mature

• adj. Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
• adj. Profound; careful.
• adj. (obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
• v. (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To become mature; to ripen.
• v. (intransitive) To gain experience or wisdom with age.
• v. (transitive) To make something mature.
• v. (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.