Senescence is the last stage of life.
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Senescence
/sɪˈnɛ.səns/
Synonyms for "senescence" (26 found)
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Noun(6 words)
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Noun(7 words)
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6 entriesoncogene induced senescenceorgan agingreplicative senescencereproductive agingsomatic agingstress induced senescence
Collocations
6 entriescellular senescencepremature senescencesenescence associated secretory phenotypesenescence biologysenescence markerssenescence onset
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2 entriesTranslations
8 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- старост noun (gerontology: old age)
Czech
1 entries- stáří noun (gerontology: old age)
Finnish
1 entries- vanhuus noun (gerontology: old age)
Greek
1 entries- γήρας noun (gerontology: old age)
Indonesian
1 entries- senesens noun (gerontology: old age)
Italian
1 entries- senescenza noun (gerontology: old age)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- كبر noun (gerontology: old age)
Persian
1 entries- پیری noun (gerontology: old age)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Translators are the sworn enemies of jokes; the exigencies of their deplorable trade cause them to maul the poor little things about while they are putting them into new clothes, and the result is death, or at the least an appearance of vacuous senescence; but jokes are only the crystallization of humour; it exists also in less tangible forms, such as style and all that collection of effects vaguely lumped together and called "atmosphere."
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Organized shuffleboard has always filled me with dread. Everything about it suggests infirm senescence and death: it’s like it’s a game played on the skin of a void and the rasp of the sliding puck is the sound of that skin getting abraded away bit by bit.
Source: wiktionary
Over the next 150 years the known age of the Earth expanded a millionfold and lost worlds of the past were found to have overflowed with species now gone. The chain stretched, aged, and eventually succumbed to senescence.
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