age
verb
to look or seem older
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adjective
someone who is youthful has many of the positive qualities considered to be typical of young people
to be younger than someone else by a particular amount
to realize that you are becoming older and less able or willing to do things that younger people do
used for saying that people start to enjoy life when they reach the age of forty
to look as old as you really are
used for saying that something makes someone seem or feel much older
if a person wears well, they look attractive and healthy even though they are not young
an old person who is young at heart has a lively positive attitude to life that is more typical of a younger person
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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