English Explanatory Dictionary

give someone grey hair

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To give someone great frustration, confusion, or anxiousness.

Word forms

give someone grey hair gives someone grey hair giving someone grey hair gave someone grey hair given someone grey hair give someone gray hair

Etymology

The phrase is influenced by the popular belief that stress can cause the greying of hair (that link wasn't shown to be grounded scientifically until a January 2020 study on stress in mice for the Nature journal).

Synonyms

give grey hair to

Related words

grey-haired oxidative stress
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