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adolesce

/ˌædəˈlɛs/

adolesce verb: to become adolescent; to pass through adolescence.

Verb

adolesce (third-person singular simple present adolesces, present participle adolescing, simple past and past participle adolesced)

  1. (intransitive) to become adolescent; to pass through adolescence.
    • The children are beginning to adolesce around the age of 12.
    • It is a young nation, still adolescing.

adolesce meaning in Bengali

adolesce in Bengali

কিশোর হওয়া, কৈশোর অতিক্রম করা

Forms of adolesce

third-person singular presentadolesces
present participleadolescing
past participleadolesced
pastadolesced

Origin of adolesce

Back-formation from adolescence. First attested in 1859.

Words that rhyme with adolesce

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Questions about adolesce

What does adolesce mean?
Adolesce means to become adolescent; to pass through adolescence.
What is adolesce in Bengali?
Adolesce in Bengali is কিশোর হওয়া, কৈশোর অতিক্রম করা. See Adolesce meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is adolesce?
Adolesce is a verb.
How do you pronounce adolesce?
Adolesce is pronounced /ˌædəˈlɛs/.
What is the past tense of adolesce?
The past tense of adolesce is adolesced.

Words near adolesce in the dictionary

  1. adocids
  2. adoe
  3. adogmatic
  4. Adohi
  5. adolapin
  6. adolesce
  7. adolesced
  8. adolescence
  9. adolescences
  10. adolescency
  11. adolescent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adolesce (page history and authors); adolesce (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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