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How to pronounce dotage in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms second childhood, senility
Type of age, eld, geezerhood, old age, years

Examples of dotage

dotage
Quite willing to irradiate generations yet to come so as to preserve his dotage?
From the guardian.co.uk
Some companies will be reinvigorated, and others will descend into their dotage.
From the boston.com
If Flew in his dotage was a bit gullible, Varghese had a gullibility of his own.
From the nytimes.com
Which has been a real revelation for me as I turn 40 and hurtle towards my dotage.
From the guardian.co.uk
I rather looked forward to a Buckley infinitely more corrosive in his dotage.
From the time.com
Picasso appeared to have spent his dotage at a costume party in a whorehouse.
From the time.com
My onrushing dotage has, in recent years, been salved by sudden onset Mozart-mania.
From the time.com
Read a poet's second or third book and you will see the style of his dotage.
From the nytimes.com
The two-part documentary studies how Baby Boomers can make the most of their dotage.
From the dailyherald.com
More examples
  • Mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations
  • Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility; Fondness or attentiveness, especially to an excessive degree
  • An old man in his dotage is one whose who has suffered the loss of judgment and memory and incapable of comprehending the lessons of Freemasonry.
  • A deterioration of mental faculties; senility