Definition of balding
:becoming bald
- bespectacled and balding
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Examples of balding in a Sentence
He wore a hat to cover his balding head.
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The suspect is described as a balding man with a short mustache and beard.
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At the helm of their organization, a secretive wing of the KGB known as Directorate S, was a balding man with the rank of major general and the name of Yuri Drozdov.
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The young, lean man of Katie's earliest memories was now brawny and balding, with the macho, wary gait of an ex-prisoner.
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Thanks to advances in medical science, the virile, balding type may soon go the way of the dodo bird.
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First Known Use of balding
1938
BALDING Defined for English Language Learners
balding
adjective
Definition of balding for English Language Learners
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: becoming bald
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