The phrase "age is diminished" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the effects of time on a person's abilities, health, or vitality.
Example: "As we grow older, we often find that age is diminished by our experiences and wisdom."
Alternatives: "age is reduced" or "age is lessened".
The genre presents an alternative (though not preferable) model for childhood development: chronological age is diminished by military rank, the binary opposition between soldiers and civilians replaces graduated social distinctions between adults and children, and war disrupts the ostensibly natural developmental processes.
The loss of immune function and progression of collagen cross-linking that normally occurs with advancing age is diminished in some dwarf strains [ 9], and at the cellular level, fibroblasts of dwarf mice are resistant to several forms of stress, including oxidative stress, ultraviolet light, toxic metals and heat [ 10, 11].
But starting in the first half of the 19th century, youth was venerated and age was diminished.
In women and in the elderly, the effect on coronary age was diminished.
Similarly, the coming-of-age poem "Border Country" is diminished by the gaucheness of the metaphor "life put on the brakes / and pitched you, without notice, / through the windscreen of your youth".
This is analogous to the correction of acetabular dysplasia by remodeling after treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip; after 4 years of age, this remodeling capacity is diminished (Kasser et al. 1985, Lalonde et al. 2002).
The effectiveness of the adaptive unfolded protein response is diminished by age.
Given that ARC POMC neuron function is diminished with age, we next sought to determine whether 5-HT compound anorectic potency is thereby compromised with aging.
Son et al. [ 37] observed that the capacity for induced telomerase expression in T and B cells is diminished with age.
The recruitment of EPCs to promote neovascularization or repair damaged endothelium is diminished by aging.
Our finding that a significantly larger fraction of young MARCKS-cKO and old wild-type ECs contain mucin than young wild-type ependyma is supportive of a model in which mucins are cleared from ependyma and that this capacity is diminished during aging.
