Illustration: An elderly man tends a potted tree on his apartment veranda, his silver hair, lined face and gently stooped back clearly visible. Through the open doorway, a large old photograph shows him as a young adult holding the same tree when it was a small sapling in the same distinctive pot.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

老おいる

oiru

to grow old

Example sentences

かわいそうな事ことにその老おいた女性じょせいはまたもバッグを盗ぬすまれた。
The poor old woman had her bag stolen again.
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彼かれは自分じぶんが老おいていくのを感かんじた。
He felt himself growing old.
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彼女かのじょは老おいた母ははの世話せわをした。
She looked after her old mother.
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Kanji in 老

老old man; old ageOnロウKunおいる・ふける

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