graying
SayGRAY-ing/ˈɡɹeɪɪŋ/
UK spellinggreying
- 1Present participle and gerund of gray.
Her once-dark hair was graying noticeably by her fortieth birthday.
Graying at the temples gave the actor a distinguished air.
Note
The -ing form does three kinds of work: it fills the progressive (her hair was graying by forty), it sits before a noun as an adjective (a graying beard, a graying population), and as a gerund it names the process itself (the graying of the workforce). The population use moves the image from one head of hair to a whole region growing older on average.
graying is a form of gray
gray, verb: To become gray, or make something gray, especially as hair loses its color with age; of a population, to grow older on average. Full entry
- Spelling
- gray → graying: add -ing
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