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adolesces

adolesces is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 adolesces

What is adolesces the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Adolesces is the third-person singular simple present indicative of adolesce.

Words near adolesces in the dictionary

  1. adolescences
  2. adolescency
  3. adolescent
  4. adolescently
  5. adolescents
  6. adolesces
  7. adolescing
  8. Adolf
  9. Adolfo
  10. Adolfs
  11. Adolfson

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adolesces (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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