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adolesced

adolesced is the simple past and past participle of adolesce.

Meaning of adolesce

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.

Questions about adolesced

What is adolesced the simple past and past participle of?
Adolesced is the simple past and past participle of adolesce.

Words near adolesced in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adolesced (page history and authors); adolesce (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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