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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
olden .
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Examples
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He looked very much oldened; and it seemed as if the contest and defeat had quite broken him.
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The girl soon dropped out of popular mythology, the boy oldened into a venerable man, he retained his pole, and the bucket was transformed into the thing he had stolen -- sticks or vegetables.
Moon Lore Timothy Harley
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The constraint in her manner was remarkable; her face was so rigid as to wear an oldened aspect, faintly suggestive of the face in Rhoda's bed-chamber.
Wessex Tales Thomas Hardy 1884
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He came the next day, and very worn down, broken and oldened did he look, as he returned to his mourning household.
The Two Guardians or, Home in This World Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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It had passed under his eyes two years before, when he could not understand it; but reading, and thought, and experience of men, had oldened him; and one of the deepest sorrows of a life which had never, in truth, been very happy, came upon him now, when he was compelled to understand and pity a grief which he stood quite powerless to relieve.
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She had oldened in that time as people do who suffer silently great mental pain; and learned much that she had never suspected before.
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It had passed under his eyes two years before, when he could not understand it; but reading, and thought, and experience of men, had oldened him; and one of the deepest sorrows of a life which had never, in truth, been very happy, came upon him now, when he was compelled to understand and pity a grief which he stood quite powerless to relieve.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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She had oldened in that time as people do who suffer silently great mental pain; and learned much that she had never suspected before.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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He looked very much oldened; and it seemed as if the contest and defeat had quite broken him.
The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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He looked very much oldened; and it seemed as if the contest and defeat had quite broken him.
The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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