senesce

Other forms of senesce

past tense

senesced·

present participle

senescing·

third person

senesces·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about senesce

What does senesce mean?

senesce means "grow old or older".

How many syllables are in senesce?

senesce has 2 syllables: se-nesce. The stress falls on "nesce".

What is another word for senesce?

Close synonyms include age, get on, mature, maturate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is senesce a common word?

senesce is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.