-age

(Latin: a suffix; quality of, act of, process, function, condition, or place; forms nouns that denote an action; a product of an action; a place, an abode)


acreage
amperage
anecdotage
1. Anecdotes considered as a group.
2. Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes.
appendage
1. A body part, or organ, that projects from the main part of the body; for example, an arm, a leg, a tail, a wing, or a fin; again, any of which is joined to the axis or trunk of a body.
2. Something fastened to something else; such as, a small, or a secondary, attachment.
arbitrage
assuage
assuagement
assuager
beverage
1. Any potable (drinkable) liquid; especially, one other than water, as tea, coffee, beer, or milk: "The price of the meal includes a beverage."
2. Any one of various liquids for drinking, usually excluding water.
3. From Anglo-French beverage, from Old French bevre, "to drink" from Latin bibere, "to imbibe".
carnage
1. Widespread and indiscriminate slaughter or massacre; especially, of human beings.
2. The savage and excessive killing of many people.
3. Serious injury to a great many people; such as, in a major accident.
4. The slaughter of a great number of people; such as, in battle; butchery; massacre.
courage
discourage
disparage
1. To refer disapprovingly or contemptuously to someone or something.
2. To speak of in a slighting or disrespectful way about something or something; to belittle or "to put down".
dosage
1. The administration of medicine in doses with the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time.
2. Administration of a therapeutic agent in prescribed amounts; determination of the amount to be so administered.
3. Addition of an ingredient to a substance in a specific amount, especially to wine.
4. The process of adding a sugar solution to champagne and other sparkling wines before final corking.
dosages
1. Administrations of therapeutic agents in prescribed amounts.
2. Determination of the amounts of medicines to be administered or the amounts so administered.

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