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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

aged • adj. 1. / ājd/ having lived for a specified length of time; of a specified age: young people aged 14 to 18 he died aged 60. ∎ (of a horse or farm animal) over a certain defined age of maturity, typically 6 to 12 years for horses, 3 or 4 years for cattle. 2. / ˈājid/ having lived or existed for a long time; old: aged men with white hair| [as pl. n.] (the aged) Methodist homes for the aged. 3. / ājd/ that has been subjected to aging: jeans in hardrock wash give a unique aged appearance.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

aged •carangid • alleged • aged •frigid, rigid •turgid • naked • wicked • whizz-kid •orchid • crooked •pallid, valid •gelid • skidlid • eyelid •solid, squalid, stolid •Euclid • unsullied • annelid •chrysalid • Ozalid • desmid • timid •Fatimid •humid, tumid •pyramid • MacDiarmid • crannied •arachnid • Enid • hominid • honied •Leonid, Oceanid •salmonid • Achaemenid •unaccompanied • Sassanid • learned •winged •rapid, sapid, vapid •intrepid, tepid •insipid, lipid •limpid • poppied • torpid •Cupid, stupid •canopied

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