Usually means: Aging process turning hair gray.
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  1. graying: Merriam-Webster
  2. graying: Collins English Dictionary
  3. graying: Vocabulary.com
  4. Graying, graying: Wordnik
  5. graying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. graying: Wiktionary
  7. graying: Dictionary.com
  8. Graying: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. graying: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. graying: Encyclopedia

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  1. graying: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Gray)

adjective:  Of a colour between black and white.
adjective:  Dreary, gloomy.
adjective:  Of an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
adjective:  Gray-haired.
adjective:  Old.
adjective:  Relating to older people.
verb:  To become gray.
verb:  To cause to become gray.
verb:  (demography, slang) To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
verb:  (transitive, photography) To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
noun:  An achromatic colour between black and white.
noun:  An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
noun:  A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.
noun:  (chiefly US, ufology) Synonym of grey alien
noun:  (US, two-up) A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.
noun:  In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname; originally a nickname for someone with a gray beard or hair.
noun:  A male given name.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A city, the county seat of Jones County, Georgia.
noun:  A minor city in Audubon County, Iowa.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Knox County, Kentucky.
noun:  A census-designated place in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.
noun:  A town and census-designated place therein, in Cumberland County, Maine.
noun:  A census-designated place in Washington County, Tennessee.
noun:  A rural locality in north-east Tasmania, Australia.
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