ADOLESCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they adolesce ... he / she / it adolesces

Past simple: adolesced

Past participle: adolesced

-ing form: adolescing

Meaning:

Become adolescent; pass through adolescence

Example:

The children are beginning to adolesce around the age of 12

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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)