show one's age

verb

To indicate by appearance or other factors that a person is no longer young, or ageing, or of an object, no longer new and ageing.

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Meanings

verbshow one's age (third-person singular simple present shows one's age, present participle showing one's age, simple past showed one's age, past participle shown one's age)

present singular third person shows one's age · participle present showing one's age · past showed one's age · participle past shown one's age

  1. To indicate by appearance or other factors that a person is no longer young, or ageing, or of an object, no longer new and ageing.

    The interior of 313201 is showing its age. The non-alignment with the windows has always been a neck-stretching problem since the high-backed 2+2 seating was installed in around 2010. [page 42, photo caption] The front-end design of the Class 313s has never shown its age.

    2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 39, photo caption
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “show one's age,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/show%20one's%20age.

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