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