ADOLESCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adolesce mean? 

• ADOLESCE (verb)
  The verb ADOLESCE has 1 sense:

1. become adolescent; pass through adolescence

  Familiarity information: ADOLESCE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADOLESCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they adolesce    ... he / she / it adolesces   
Past simple: adolesced   
Past participle: adolesced   
-ing form: adolescing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become adolescent; pass through adolescence

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The children are beginning to adolesce around the age of 12

Hypernyms (to "adolesce" is one way to...):

develop (grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

adolescence (in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood)

adolescence (the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood)

adolescent (a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity)

adolescent (in the state of development between puberty and maturity)

adolescent (being of the age 13 through 19)

adolescent (relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent)