Talk:age up
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Svartava2 in topic RFD discussion: February–October 2021
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"To get older; to advance in age"
This seems NISoP: age ("to become old") + up ("to a higher level of some quantity"). Not in any other OneLook reference. Also a pleonasm.
Perhaps someone could find some usage for which an idiomatic definition is required. DCDuring (talk) 15:57, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
- There are, I believe, video games and other media where it is possible to "age up" a character (i.e., to cause them to rapidly advance from infancy to adulthood). See, e.g., Mina Smith, "The Sims 4: How to Age Up Toddler", GameRant (January 28, 2021). bd2412 T 16:32, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep — Dentonius 08:39, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Delete, --Robbie SWE (talk) 19:16, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep on the gaming sense of transitioning from one level to the next rather than an actual age (note that it can also be intransitive), ambivalent on the other. BigDom 20:49, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Keep per BigDom; I also won't miss the first sense, so I abstain on that one.
←₰-→Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 19:57, 25 March 2021 (UTC) - Keep combination of verb plus (what I thought is called a) participle which changes the meaning (tho we don't seem to have that definition). Instinctively, I would considered this incorrect English, and those entries are usually pretty solid candidates. DAVilla 01:45, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
- RFD-Kept Svartava2 (talk) 06:41, 23 October 2021 (UTC)