senesce

From Latin senēscere (“to grow old”).

• IPA^(key): /səˈnɛs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

senesce (third-person singular simple present senesces, present participle senescing, simple past and past participle senesced)

1. To grow older; to reach maturity.

   All living organisms senesce.

   • 2012, Douglas E. Crews, Gillian H. Ice, “Aging, Senescence, and Human Variation”, in Sara Stinson, Barry Bogin, Dennis H. O'Rourke, editors, Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspective‎, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

     After spawning, salmon rapidly senesce and die due to systemic endocrine alterations.

• age, grow up; see also Thesaurus:to age

• senescence
• senescent

• essence

senēsce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of senēscō