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gray hair

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*gray hair(s) 
1. Lit. a lightening of the hair caused by aging or hereditary factors. (*Typically: get ~ have ~ give someone ∼.) I get more gray hair the older I get. I guess my genes give me gray hair.
2. Fig. a lightening of the hair caused by stress or frustration. (*Typically: get ~ have ~ give someone ∼.) I'm getting gray hairs because I have three teenage boys. I have gray hair from raising four kids.
See also: gray, hair


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The younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an old man, was equally zealous in removing every gray hair she could find.
He was a very lean man, of no more than average height, with gray hair cut short and a stubbly gray moustache.
A man with gray hair had thrown himself from the boat into the river and was swimming vigorously toward the person who was drowning; but being obliged to go against the current he advanced but slowly.
 
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