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2021-04-18 16:00:00 Mum, adjective.

Example: He was keeping mum about his future plans.

Synonyms:

1. silent, quiet, mute, dumb, tight-lipped, close-mouthed, uncommunicative, unforthcoming, reticent, secretive
2. (archaic) mumchance
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2021-04-17 16:00:00 Multiply, verb.

Example: The difficulties seem to be multiplying by the minute.

Synonyms:

1. increase, increase exponentially, grow, become more numerous, accumulate, proliferate, mount up, mushroom, snowball, burgeon, spread, expand
2. (literary) wax

Antonyms:

1. decrease, diminish
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2021-04-16 16:00:00 Elderly, adjective.

Example: She has an elderly mother in a nursing home.

Synonyms:

1. aged, old, mature, older, senior, ancient, venerable
2. advanced in years, getting on, ageing
3. in one's dotage, long in the tooth, as old as the hills
4. grey, grey-haired, grey-bearded, grizzled, hoary
5. past one's prime, not as young as one was, not as young as one used to be
6. decrepit, doddering, doddery, not long for this world, senile, superannuated
7. septuagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian
8. (informal) past it, over the hill, no spring chicken
9. (formal) senescent
10. (rare) longevous

Antonyms:

1. young
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