senilize

present singular third person senilizes · participle present senilizing · participle past senilized · past senilized · alternative senilise

1. datedtransitiveTo advance in time of life.

   Although the climate tends to quickly senilize the soil weathered from it, the frequent rejuvenations by the eruptives from Bromo and Semeroe keep the soils relatively juvenile.

   1951, Marinus Johaness Dijkman, Hevea: Thirty Years of Research in the Far East