aging body
Time-worn physical form
An aging body is the physical form as it undergoes the changes of growing older—declining strength, reduced flexibility, graying hair, wrinkled skin.
The phrase typically carries a note of resignation or rueful acceptance: My aging body can't handle all-nighters anymore.
It often appears when someone confronts the gap between how they feel inside and what the mirror shows.
- wrinklesSurface lines from folding
- crow's feetWrinkles at eye corners
- gray hairPigment-faded strands
- age spotsPigmented marks from aging
- achesDull persistent pains
aching joints · creaky knees · joints · stiff · sagging · fatigue · frail · loss of balance · bones · decline · slowing down · mortality · creaking · liver spots · thinning · slouch · trembling · weakness
- agingbiological age, old age, biological clock, senescence, geriatrics
- impairmentsimpairment, disability, paralysis, incapacity, blindness
- bodyflesh, skin, bones, muscle, bone